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THE ONLY PRACTICABLE WAT OF ATTAINING THE HIGHEST 
POSSIBLE DEGREE OF CHRISTIANITY AND HAPPINESS 
ON EARTH ; AND OF FORMING THE ARK OF 
THE TESTAMENT OF GOD. 



WITH EIBKICAL PBOOF1 



1 Cor. 13: 13. And now abideth faith, hope, 
the greatest of these is charity, 



PITTSBURGH 

PRINTED BY JOSEPH SNOWDEN ; 

1850. 




UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. ") 

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Western District of Pensylvania. J 

Be it Remembered, That on the Seventh day of Novem- 
ber, Anno Domini 1849, Dr. J. L. F. Julius Schwarz, of 
said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, 
the title of which is in the words following, to wit: " The 
Separation of the Clean from the Unclean; or, the only 
practicable way of attaining the highest possible degree of 
Christianity and happiness on earth, and of forming the ark 
of the Testament of God. With Biblical proofs. By Dr. 
J. L. F. Julius Schwarz." The right whereof he claims as 
Author and Proprietor, in conformity with an Act of 
Congress, entitled "An Act to amend the several Acts 
respecting Copy Rights." 

R. BIDDLE ROBERTS, 
Clerk of the Western District of Pennsylvania. 



TITLES 

WHICH MAY BRIEFLY GIVE THE PROPER IDEA OF THE 
CONTENTS OF THIS BOOK. 

The love of the only true bride. 

John 14: 21. At that day ye shall know that I am in 
my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. Ephes. 
3: 19. And to know the love of Christ, which passeth 
knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the 
fulness of God. 

The only possible external preparation to meet 

the Lord, which he himself may expect from his 

advanced lovers. 
Luke 12f 36. And ye yourselves like unto men that 
wait for their Lord, when he will return from 
the wedding, that when he qometh and knocketh 
they may open unto him immediately. 

The Ark of the Testament of Grod. 

Rev. 11: 19. And the temple of God was opened in 
Heaven, and there was seen in His temple the ark 
of His testament. Rev. 13: 6. And he opened his 
mouth to blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his 
name and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in 
heaven. 

A place of refuge for all divine pureness on earth. 

Joel 3: 5. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever 
shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered ; 
for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be delive- 
rance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant 
whom the Lord shall call. 



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Mens terrestrial gathering place, where the most 
possible perfection and righteousness exist. 
Joel 3: 25. But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusa- 
lem from generation to generation. 

The mfst possible perfect fruit of true education 

of mankind. 
Luke 6: 44. For every tree is known by his own fruit. 
An abode of faith, of love, and of transition to 
heaven. 

Rev. 15: 2. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled 
with fire ; and them that had gotten the victory over 
the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, 
and over the number of his name, stand on the sea 
of glass having the harps of God. 

A great sign of Christianity's love, to shoiv the Son 

of Grod that his christians on earth desire his 

return. 

Mathew 25: 1. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be 
likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, 
and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Rev. 22: 
17. And the spirit and the bride say: Come. 

The true christian s social transition from earth 
to heaven. 

Matthew 20. But lay up for yourselves treasures in 
heaven. 33. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, 
and his righteousness ; and ail these things shall be 
added unto you. 

The great convention of Zion. 

Rev. 14: 1. And I looked, and lo, a Lamb stood on 
the Mount Zion, and with him an hundred forty and 
four thousand, having his Father's name written in 
their foreheads. 



PREFACE . 

My indefatigable labor, for many years, is a 
work in which, with opened bible, I call upon the 
whole christian community — not to touch the 
unclean thing. 2 Cor. 6: 17. To pay as little 
attention as possible to any bad thing ; through 
this deafness and blindness we become so much 
more seeing and hearing in God. It is not 
possible to accomplish this principle of holiness 
and perfection even in a lower degree unless in 
a certain external separated state, but such a. 
separation is not an absolute one ; it is done by 
a mode of regulating things, like the taking of 
the candle from under the bushel and putting it 
upon the candlestick. This universal acceptation 
of the principle, "touch not the unclean thing,"' 
in the practical life will not only make the good 
will of the christians active to ennoble them, but 
those who already understand better that prin- 
ciple, it causes the want, even the necessity, to 
converse only with the similarly disposed, with 
those who shall know and do it in a higher state 
of exactity. For such I describe in this book a 
City, or a little State, with its constitution^ 
according to the same principle, and I testify by 
the opened Bible that thus must be and arise the 
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promised New Jerusalem. Whatsoever the bible 
does not verbally declare to that purpose, I have 
taken symbolically, which is first after ..the word. 
And, in the course of propagation and achieve- 
ment of this true and approved description, many 
candles will place themselves upon the right 
candlestick, and the New T Jerusalem will create 
the lustre which grows brighter and brighter. 
And the reflection of the light of the principle 
" touch not the unclean thing,'' will have a 
powerful effect ; it will even harvest the earth. 
.The true church of Christ, by the external rea- 
lising of that principle, will become purified, 
strong, and visible in Zion, that is in the State 
of New Jerusalem, which I describe practically. 

I will here further endeavor kindly to answer 
those readers who may find objections against 
my proposition. Let me observe that I have 
in no way said anything against marrying, but 
I only call one love true, the love of God. And 
writing my system only for more experienced, 
unlucky and glowing lovers of God, or for ad- 
vanced christians, giving them an opportunity to 
refuge, and to satisfy the better their love for 
the good, to approach as near as possible to 
heaven ; for how can the much mistaken sensual 
love, and marriages accord there, when our 
Lord saith: "in heaven, there is no marriage," 
and "thy will be done on earth as in heaven." 
I cannot describe a re-creation, but merely 
what is possible to be done for the eternal 
welfare of a sinful generation, which has the 



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manifest help of God. I consider with equal 
love both sexes, showing them an honorable 
place of refuge, since Eden's Garden is lost, and 
with it that pure spiritual mutual predilection of 
the male and female, which was only a spiritual 
love, for to be sensually disposed is death. 
Rom. 8: 6. The fallen generation received from 
God another creation suitable to their changed 
fallen nature, and the commandment of the 
circumcision, and the doctrine to take the cross, 
denying as much as possible our sensual dispo- 
sition, a passion which is ever an enemy to God, 
and of our eternal being. There are also, 
indeed, but few true matrimonies in which God 
is more loved than the creature : the many 
thousand impediments against happy marriages, 
show that happiness by marriage is not to be 
found in the holiest part of the place of refuge 
for lovers glowing for God. The article which 
I mentioned concerning dancing is in accordance 
with the bible, believing myself that the custom 
of dancing at the present time supports too 
much common sensuality ; and not only the 
biblical history shows examples, but in the great 
festival dances of the Indians which I saw, male 
danced w T ith male, and female with female. 
Therefore I conclude this preface with the re- 
membrance of the words of St. Paul, 1 Thes. 
5: 22, "Abstain from all appearance of evil." 



KECOMMENDATION. 



A word about the work by Dr. Julttts Schwarz, entitled 
"The separation of the Clean from the Unclean, or the de- 
scription of the only practical way of attaining the highest 
possible degree of Christianity, &c." 

It is with great pleasure that I comply with the desire 
of Mr. Schwarz, to express my opinion on his work, for it 
is my sincere conviction that it deserves to be published, 
and that it will cause much benefit and blessing. The 
author, who is my beloved and very estimable friend, shows 
a deep knowledge of scripture, and every believing chris- 
tian, by his comprehension and by his use of the several 
passages of the scriptures, perceives that the Spirit of God 
has enlightened him, and in fine, that his heart belongs to the 
Lord Jesus Christ. His work contains penetrating thoughts 
— thoughts which he bore as a youth, and which became 
by the progresses of his age, clear and mature. True love 
to his fellow-redeemed, and brethren whom he sees in the 
midst of an evil and corrupt world, is the motive of pub- 
lishing his opinions. He points out to them a way, in the 
above mentioned work, to accomplish the supreme require- 
ments of Christianity, and to attain the highest possible 
degree of perfection, presenting the principle "touch not 
the unclean thing." This can only be done by a deliverance 
and a separation of the good from the bad. 

With that aim in view he describes a city in which those 
may live together in christian love, and whence they shall 
shine into the world, which remains in evil, with the light 
of their undefiled conduct ; according to this, he calls that 
place, "the promised Holy City, the New Jerusalem." 



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We may well assert, that when the ideas presented in 
this book shall become realized, the inhabitants of this city 
shall have a paradise on earth, or at least the purest pre- 
enjoyment of the blessedness of heaven and of the future 
happiness which shall be made manifest to the believers. 
I do not purpose here to criticise this book, but merely to 
give a few words of encouragement to those who might 
hesitate to circulate it. It will recommend itself by the 
solidness of its contents, and through the spirit in which it 
is composed. I heartily wish the best success to the author, 
and hope the Lord will bless richly his noble endeavors. 

R. KOEHLER, 

Minister of the United Reformed and Lutheran Churchy 

Pittsburgh, Pa. 



INTRODUCTION. 



If you, kind reader, will search, in humility 
and meekness, and with an unprejudiced mind, 
the Holy Scriptures, then the truth will render 
you a witness of the verity of this work. Yet 
can you, in the full enjoyment of reason, lightly 
shrink from the sacred supremacy of the holy 
scriptures, which I shall in the course of the 
succeeding pages endeavor to describe, but I 
trust your heart has already yielded to the po- 
tent constraint of truth — that you do not belong 
to those of whom St. Paul wrote, u Having a 
form of godliness but denying the power there- 
of from such turn away. The divine education 
of mankind in the sacred testament certainly 
has earthly tendencies as well as heavenly ; there- 
fore, let us now inquire concerning their earthly 
tendencies, and we will find but one, and only 
one way which leads unerringly to this superior 
earthly limit of Christianity. We find it inter- 
rogatory, asking 1st : What does the testament 
contain as its general requirement? The an- 
swer is, To make straight the crooked, and to 
separate the clean from the unclean ; and the 



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consequences of this separation are spiritual and 
material ; the latter shall render the earth free 
from pollution, commending likewise the people 
of God to perfect its circumstances by which 
they are surrounded. 2d : What is the duty of 
an amiable bride, who is not dressed but tarnish- 
ed, in consequence of touching unclean things, 
by living among them ? what is her duty when 
she knows that her bridegroom is coming in 
haste, clean, highly and cheerfully dressed? 
(Rev. xxii. 12, And behold I come quickly.) We 
ask, 3d: What is man's first and general duty? 
It is to enlighten and expand his mind in the 
spirit of God, and to perfect also his surround- 
ing works and company; we therefore conclude 
that all the chief and important questions of our 
being, agree on one limit, and we will find this 
sacred limit by degrees accomplishing the work 
on earth, which is described in this book as a 
true extract from the Bible. Perhaps you are 
astonished to see a layman come out with a the- 
ological doctrine, and a building of high impor- 
tance, concerning which no theologians have 
taught : then do not consider that, but be a lover 
of truth, and only observe the circumstances 
eliciting the present undertaking. The door of 
truth has been partially barred against the peo- 
ple, during centuries, by the courts of monarchs 
and the prejudices of the deluded people them- 
selves, who are taught to believe more in the 
ordinances of men than in their own perceptions 
and consciences. Consider whether my argu- 



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merit does not impress that requirement of the 
testament upon the mind. The most important 
new dogmas arising from the Bible were not re- 
ceived at first by learned theologians or rulers in 
doctrine, but by the people only ; because it re- 
quires very little to understand the word of God ; 
it needs nothing else but to be read, to be exer- 
cised, to be experienced; therefore, it was im- 
mediately directed to the people, for our Lord 
took out of such a common estate his first apos- 
tles, (Acts : Now when they saw the boldness of 
Peter and John, and perceived that they were 
unlearned and ignorant men. — Gal. ii. 6 : God 
accepteth no man's person) ; and he takes those 
for his prophets, his wise men and his scribes, 
those of whom he spoke to the scribes and phar- 
isees of this world, and said, (Matt, xxiii. 34,) 
Some of them ye shall kill and crucify. Be- 
cause his servants cannot make any use of the 
greater part of the reigning theological know- 
ledge, for they dislike to fill the noble mind with 
vain thoughts, systems and idols ; they are hum- 
ble individuals, endowed with talents to learn 
many practical real sciences, useful in reading 
the holy scriptures, in exercising and experien- 
cing them. Consequently, a few of those wise 
men get such offices from the Lord as please the 
majority of the people, many perishing, mute 
and scorned, must sow in tears the seed of hap- 
piness to the coming generations ; wherefore an- 
swered Jesus and said Matt. xi. 25, I thank thee, 
Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because 



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thou hast hid these things from the wise and 
prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. 

Our Lord will come again, as he tells us in 
several places ; he will certainly come exactly at 
the right time which is determined by God. He 
will not regard all the follies of men, of the false 
going out to meet him, it is enough when our 
hearts are prepared for that time. So say a 
multitude of christians, and it is right enough 
for many of them, but not sufficient for the more 
advanced vivid lovers of him ; they have first to 
achieve every possible thing to perfect them- 
selves and to exercise his laws as perfectly as 
possible, and they have to consider if he did not 
raise himself a bride in his Christianity, if he did 
not teach us that true life and eternal happiness 
consist only in belief in him, which is active 
through the love ; and yet we have done nothing, 
neither for the love toward him nor for our own 
perfection. How sweet must it be to the heav- 
enly bridegroom to see his bride coming, prudent- 
ly refusing the unclean, building a sign of love 
to him, and providently making a line to draw 
christians from all ends of the gloomy earth 
unto the sign of transition to heaven, to the 
bridegroom, through the abode of glowing love 
to him ; and behold it would be an ark of refuge 
also for the farther advanced lovers of God. 
Indeed this would be the only happy enterprise 
that man could undertake which would entice 
our Lord to a particular general sign of mutual 
love. And is it not so commanded by the bride- 



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man John ? who was the voice of one crying in 
the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, 
make his paths straight. We know that this is 
only partially fulfilled in as far as it concerned 
internal preparation, which is only one path ; 
there remains for us to prepare the external path 
too. Many persons may assert, that this is not 
in the power of man, but I show, that it will 
soon claim and elicit the love of the whole chris- 
tian community ; then it will consecrate it, if we 
do not deny the power of godliness, and do in 
love as much as we can for that purpose, that we 
may satisfy our conscience, our only true love, 
and the Father of our Lord, whose assistance 
will render us able to accomplish it. 

It is very remarkable, how discreetly our testa- 
ment indirectly invites its true lovers to come 
out and meet the Lord; the commandments of 
God afford this invitation, so that we can take it 
for a commandment itself ; although we would 
not, nevertheless we are bound as christians to 
do all that is possible for our perfection and 
sanctity, all which requires the same enterprise 
and limit. The holy place of the gathering of 
all the valor of christian perfection, which is 
possible on earth, I name it the City of the New 
Jerusalem, which certainly is the becoming visi- 
ble of the true church on earth, but our present 
world is much deceived by erroneous theologians 
who interpret the prophecies which attest and 
exhibit our subject to their churches and profit, 
whilst too many forget the destination of church- 



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es of every kind, which is a public institute of 
christian education, whose right manner never 
can be that splendid pride and gorgeousness of 
external sanctity ; of which sanctity the holy 
scriptures speak with regard to the Holy City, 
This New Jerusalem, and the way to constitute 
it, is a work of itself, independent of the pres- 
ent external churches, a work of perfection whilst 
the worldly external church teaches young and 
unlearned christians, and leads them to those 
high limits to which this earthly one tends ; here 
to elucidate my affirmation of the certain arising 
of the New Jerusalem by the people of God on 
earth may be mentioned Rev. xi. 2, And the holy 
city shall they tread under foot forty and two 
months; Zach. viii. 3, Thus said the Lord, I am 
returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst 
of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called a 
citv of truth, and the mountain of the Lord of 
hosts: the holy mountain — Joel iii. 17, Then 
shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no stran- 
gers pass through her any more — Zach. xii. 8, In 
that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants 
of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them 
at that day shall be as David; and the house of 
David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord 
before them — Isa. xxxv. 9, But the redeemed 
shall walk there; 10. And the ransomed of the 
Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs, 
and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall 
obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing 
shall flee away — lxii. 12, And they shall call 



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them, the holy people, the redeemed of the 
Lord: and thou shalt be called: sought out. A 
city not forsaken — Amos ix. 11, In that day will 
I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, 
and close up the breaches thereof ; and I will 
raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the 
days of old — Zach. xii. 5, And the governors of 
Judah shall say in their heart, the inhabitants of 
Jerusalem shall be my strength in the Lord of 
hosts their God: 16, And I will pour upon the 
house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jeru- 
salem the spirit of grace, and of supplication ; and 
they shall look upon me whom they have pierced. 

We can be certain, therefore, that the inhabi- 
tants of the New Jerusalem are christians ; thus 
it is declared by Matt. viii. 11, 12, and by St. 
Paul, Rom. ix. 8, That is, they which are the 
children of the flesh, those are not the children 
of God, but the children of the promise are 
counted for the seed ; 25, I will call them my 
people, who were not my people, and her belov- 
ed, who was not beloved ; and by Luke xxii. 30. 
To inquire whether we are children of the flesh 
of Israel's nations according to the revelation, 
and how the numbers of the coming inhabitants 
are counted, does not belong to our province. 
Although the scriptures say (Heb. xi. 10, 16,) 
of a heavenly city already built by the Creator, 
and we also believe that such a city exists in 
heaven, yet the requirements of love cause us 
the more to follow the commandments, Matt. v. 
48, Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father 
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who is in heaven is perfect. Whenever this 
Father beholds our intention that we are going 
to do that which He himself loves to do, then 
undoubtedly he will render our hands more and 
more to be his instruments, as it is written in 
Rev. xxi. 24, And the kings of the earth bring 
their glory and honor into it. Therefore all the 
prophecies of our subject would be as untrue, as 
in vain, if the city of the New Jerusalem for 
which we contend, were not determined for the 
earth. We have to notice before we continue, 
that we must understand by the house of David, 
the true commonwealth congress on earth ; and 
under the governors of Judah, the true repub- 
lican governors on earth ; and so the holy moun- 
tain can only be the true christian illustration, 
and the house on it is the church of its most true 
professions. We have to understand that Zion 
is the holiest power executed on earth by that 
justice, truth and holiness, which come from the 
most noble christians through their perception of 
Christianity, and through the people's worship in 
the true principles of Christianity. We have 
farther to notice, that it is easy to prove, and 
experience shows, that a monarchical government 
must ever lay its crown at the feet of a good 
commonwealth government ; it must ever be uni- 
lateral, (except that of the omniscient God,) and 
therefore the more they are grown in knowledge 
and perceptions, by so much the more it is op- 
pressing and spoiling to the people. The Bible 
itself showed first this truth, that monarchs were 



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not first ordered by God, but contrary. See 
Judges ix. 7, where Jotham tells in place of the 
Lord a parable, which clearly explains the fate- 
ful partiality which would be caused by the gov- 
ernment of kings, so that it just requires an 
immodest tyrant, like a thornbush, who likes to 
be king over the people. And not understand- 
ing this parable, Israel desired again to have a 
king. See 1 Samuel viii. 6, 7. But then, said 
the Lord, they have rejected me, (viz: through 
this design they have rejected the Lord's own 
government, who governs through the free choice 
of their .^conscience,) and now the Lord let the 
people wisely have their will, as a punishment, 
for they now deserved a king and nothing more ; 
but then the Lord determined for the people 
their penalty, and declared to them the hard 
consequences of the fulfilling of their unwise 
design as punishments — see the same chapter- — 
and further to prevent the thornbush's tyranny, 
the Lord himself ordered kings for his people, 
the most God-fearing persons ; for these kings 
must always execute the direct will of the Lord, 
and recommend his wisdom as the first, until he 
gave that will revealed, with offering pardon and 
redemption for ever to all people; and so he 
placed his wonderful Son before all men as their 
only King on the chair of David, or of the 
earthly kings. See Luke i. 32, 33, where the 
archangel, Gabriel, announces Jesus emphati- 
cally as the king of the people of the true God. 
And what David said about Jesus Christ, Ps. cx. 



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1, The Lord said unto my Lord, etc., shows us 
also who is our king after David. And the sig- 
nification of 'king,' in the prophecies of the 
gospel, (Jer. xxii. 4, Rev. xvi. 12 and C. v. 10,) is 
of course kings of truth, according to that, that 
Jesus calls himself the truth and a king, (John 
xviii. 37> Matt* xxvii. 11); and persons full of 
the spirit of Christ have much power in repub- 
lics by knowing the ruling truth. The very 
truths concerning every thing cannot suitably 
rule together with the dominion of an indepen- 
dent monarch ; because truth's condition to rule 
is a king like Jesus Christ by every man's lib- 
erty or free judging of what is true and right in 
his own conscience, and to do that unhindered, 
for his conscience only lead him to the truth 
w r hich is the voice of the conscience ; therefore 
only this government can please best our Lord 
Jesus Christ, for he is the truth which reigns 
through the conscience, the whole like the single, 
wherefore Isaiah says, lv. 4, Behold, I have 
given him for a witness to the people, a leader 
,and commander to the people. 

Whenever we believe that the promised heav- 
enly reform of the earth and mankind, cannot 
be done without great general wonders, worthy 
of the Son of Man, then it is still a union of 
the work of our duty of love to him, and the 
fulfilling of this our duty will have the same 
communication to all the other prophecies in the 
scriptures, for we see them becoming all fulfilled 
by accomplishing our single due of love to our 



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Redeemer, which is by this our coming out to 
build him a New Jerusalem according to the 
precepts of the Bible; examples are Dan. vii. 27, 
And the kingdom and dominion, and the great- 
ness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, 
shall be given to the people of the saints of the 
Most High, whose kingdom is as everlasting, and 
all dominions shall serve and obey him. Zach. 
xiv. 9, And the Lord shall be king over all the 

earth 10, All the land shall be turned as a 

plain from Geba: 11, But Jerusalem shall be 
safely inhabited* — (see Psalms xxxvii. 9, 11,29.) 
1 Cor. vi. 2, Do ye not know that the saints shall 
judge the world? Rev. xix. 6, And I heard as 
it were the voice of a great multitude, saying 
Allelujah ! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. 
We can see, and the history of the world shows, 
that progressively and in the same proportion 
as our Bible became more known, the governors 
of the nations lost more and more power to ty- 
rannise over men, until we are so near to our 
aim that every governor must fear the aroused 
christain character in doing injustice to him; 
the kings must already be ashamed before the 
light of their people to act unjustly ; and (not 
by might, nor by power, but by the influence of 
the Spirit of God, Zach. iv. 6,) a few centuries 
further by hastened progressions, the most right- 
eous men among the nations will be distinguished 
and elected; then the presidents shall become 
saints, if they be not already. These facts are 
all produced by the consequences of the unity 



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of Jesus Christ, truth, and conscience ; because 
people are so constrained through their con- 
science to elect the truth for their governor, that 
the majority must ever go with the sane voice of 
conscience, unless that voice grow dumb through 
mistaken confidence, but this misplaced confi- 
dence only causes delay of the progress whilst 
it pays experience to the truth, then she arises 
with more glory, elected she elicits, spreads out 
and multiplies the illustration of truth in has- 
tened progressions. So will be fulfilled Is. xxxv. 
8, And an highway shall be there, and a waj^, 
and it shall be called : The way of holiness, the 
unclean shall not pass over it ; but it shall be 
for those the wayfaring men, though fools, shall 
not err therein ; (our course be in that way, see 
constit. p. 7.) Isa. xl. 11, He shall feed his 
flock like a shepherd, he shall gather the lambs 
with his arm and carry them in his bosom, and 
shall gently lead those that are with young. 
Hab. iii. 14, For the earth shall be filled with 
knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the wa- 
ters cover the sea. Zeph. iii. 9, For then will I 
turn to the people a pure language, that they 
may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve 
him with one consent. Mai. iv. 3, And ye shall 
tread down the wicked ; for they shall be ashes 
under the soles of your feet in the day that I 
shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts. Hos, iii ? 
5, Afterwards shall the children of Israel return 
and seek the Lord their God, and David their 
king ; and shall fear the Lord and his goodness 



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in the latter days. Amos v. 24, But let judg- 
ment run down as waters and righteousness as a 
mighty stream. Mai. iii. 17, And they shall be 
mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when 
I make up my jewels, and I will spare them, as 
a man spareth his own son that serveth him. 
At the same time the teachers of Christianity 
can have much more harmony and regulation in 
its communities, and more confidence in its 
members ; they have principally to explain the 
christian belief by proofs, the depth, the height, 
the width and the length of the Spirit of Christ, 
(Eph. iii. 18,) by the many arguments which con- 
tain every true knowledge, and this w T ill render 
the people far more righteous (Col. ii. 9); and 
not by crying, ye shall know the Lord. — Heb. 
viii. 11, For all shall know him from the least to 
the greatest. — Dan. xii. 3, And they that be wise 
shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; 
and they that turn many to righteousness as the 
stars for ever and ever. — Matt. xiii. 41, The Son 
of Man shall send forth his angels, and they 
shall gather out of his kingdom all things that 
offend, and them which do iniquity. — 43, Then 
shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the 
kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to 
hear, let him hear. Coming thus over men with 
his spirit, the government of truth, which is of 
Jesus Christ, then is fulfilled. Ps. ex. 1, The 
Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right 
hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 
He cannot let his bride become an orphan, for 



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she went out to wait for him according to the 
will of his heavenly Father, (Luke xii. 36, John 
v. 30,) and according to that love which he bears 
to her ; hence his presence will follow. Before 
this will take place a gradual judgment appears 
(John iii. 18) and causes a separation from those 
who pollute their only source of the true illus- 
tration, and from those who make bad use of this 
illustration and of their own talents ; this sepa- 
ration is commanded to his reapers as he himself 
has said, Matt. xiii. 30 and 49, and we shall be 
his reapers and his angels if we will freely be 
his servants in accomplishing our first and single 
duty to him. Then it will fulfil Is. ii. 12, For 
the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every 
one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one 
that is lifted up, and he shall be brought low, 
etc., and that very day will render our whole 
globe like a brilliant star representing the truth 
of Christ, and will change the whole nature of 
the earth, of animals, and of men, as it is proph- 
ecied in Is. lxv. 25, The wolf and the lamb shall 
feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like 
the bullock; and dust shall be the serpent's 
meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all 
my holy mountain, saith the Lord, Is. vi. 7, 8, 9. 
Such must be the fate of a fallen world, whose 
Creator is omnipotent love, ransoming the con- 
demned dead to new lives and happiness ; and if 
we only trust the surest part of our understand- 
ing of the revelation, then we are where the 
angel sware that there should be time no longer, 



(Is. x. 6) because he who understands that prin- 
ciple " touch not the unclean," and much more 
those who are to that enabled, are entered in 
heaven, and have properly time no longer. 

A powerful exertion, to perfect our souls, in- 
fluences our surrounding objects, ^-its effects af- 
ford this inducement, and not in vain says St. 
Paul, Gal. vi. 2, Bear ye one another's burdens, 
and so fulfil the law of Christ. Therefore, the 
city of the perfect surrounding place, and the 
biblical constitution of her inhabitants, can only 
be practically described by him, who attended to 
that subject so much, that he is wholly conver- 
sant with it, and knows how perilous a small 
defect is for the whole. I have further to remark 
here, in order to prevent misunderstanding, that 
the unmarried state, which I have described, is 
not commanded ere the holy city is already 
built, and other arrangements made ; but when 
the city is perfected as much as possible by men, 
then there shall be no matrimony, nor giving in 
marriage. Luke xx. 35. 

If we examine the explanations of the true 
Christianity by those many religious doctors, then 
we will always meet with the same want, a road 
which we wanted in this world to execute the 
precepts of love and of charitable works to all 
men in equal perfection and in perfect accord- 
ance with the precepts of self-denial dying off 
from the world; because this dying off cannot be 
done without at least a separation from the. 
greatest portion of men and their cares, it also 
2 



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cannot even be done internally, for the less man 
does anything externally, the less he can do it 
internally, unless through falsehood and hypoc- 
racy. We must also suppose that we can per- 
fectly do whatsoever God has commanded us, 
since he requires it of us and says, Be ye per- 
fect. The two poles, between which we have to 
prepare that wanting path, contain about these 

passages : Matt. v. 44, Love your enemies 

24, No man can serve, two masters; 1 John ii. 
15, Love not the world, neither the things that 
are in the world, etc. Arnet, and other great 
theologists, say : Because God is a hidden God, 
if he shall converse with the soul it must become 
secret, and the more secret it will be, the more 
it will be separated from the world. Like the 
archfather Jacob, when he went from his children 
and friends, God and the angels spoke with him. 
(p. 119.) So thoulearnest the most noble work, 
namely, to die off from the world, in silence and 
hope, without any lamentation. Because those 
that lament even with impatience, prove that 
they will not die off from the world — that is, 
that they have but little good in themselves. — 
(p. 529.) I myself endeavored to mark in this 
book the best possible way to accomplish both 
kinds of commandments, most possibly perfect 
and according to each other, as perfect as possi- 
ble for men ; and I have found my plan discov- 
ered to that aim, richly testified by the Bible, so 
that I can now invite every impartial christian 
to examine the subject by the light of our faith. 



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Though it may surprise many one, I am confi- 
dent that my proposition is right, and the will 
of the holy Trinity, and the more man directs 
himself with exactness according to the Bible, 
by realising this plan, the more that will be re- 
vealed to Christianity, which remained inexplica- 
ble in her doctrine even to their best doctors 
until this time. Yet I would like to add a 
striking passage, which is- found in Stilling's 
explanation of the Revelation of John, anno 
1799, who coincided with Bengel in the impor- 
tant points of the latter's explanation of the 
revelation, the only explanation that offers so 
much proof that it deserves credence, and has 
found it too ; this contains the following intima- 
tions of the profound Scher, page 216: "Provi- 
dence will afford opportunity for separating, and 
thus indicate the going out of Babel to those 
who fear the Lord, and are faithful to him — this 
is the sealing them to the separation." 

Therefore, I beg you, my kind reader, to un- 
derstand this my system rightly ; not to compare 
it with the doctrine of the Mormons, who repre- 
sent themselves more like Turks than Christians; 
neither with any proof for disbelieving or corrupt 
reformations of which they have made much noise 
in our latter day ; nor any likeness with faithless 
communists, who are joined together like stones 
in ice, but when the sun of faith shines on them, 
with the warmth of the christian love, where 
sound the words Luke xiv. 26, If any man come 
to me and hate not his there then ceases their 



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union, whilst one love in one faith to Christ 
will join the members of our union always more 
suiting and more beautiful to one person with 
Christ their head. Let my system be under- 
stood as the true achievement of the words of 
the excellent St. John : Let us love him, because 
he first loved us. 

Our great work of love ever needs prepara- 
tions. This can only be made by various socie- 
ties, and by newspapers supported by those 
societies. The latter can generally be of two 
kinds — such whose members live dispersed among 
other people, and such whose members live to- 
gether in separate settlements. All these soci- 
eties must have one union, and one accumulation 
of means, to fortify themselves, and to build the 
city of their general design. Therefore, our 
societies must have a central society, where 
the delegates meet to counsel together. The 
meeting places of our various societies must be 
designated by some external sign, indicating our 
design, to perfect also our surrounding works of 
men as well as ourselves, and to build an ark of 
the Testament, an abode of perfect belief of love 
and of transition. These are all I have here to 
define as the next in accordance with our subject 
— for that which remains to be done, I must de- 
pend upon my friends, the lovers of God. But 
above all, it is necessary to understand that this 
my system or plan can only have in view to 
remove, as much as possible for man, every in- 
ducement to sin, and to defile the spirit ; however 



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we ought not to conceive that we thereby deserve 
the heaven, for men remain sinners who never 
deserve heaven, unless Jesus purchased it for 
them. We ever need anew the forgiveness of God, 
and he promised us through Jesus Christ this 
pardon and mercy, but on condition that we will 
obey him as well as we can, and the better we do 
that, the more we become assured of forgiveness 
and of heaven's inheritance , — this contains the 
reason wherefore I publish this proposition. 

With regard to the quotations in this work, it 
may happen sometimes that the cited place con- 
tains only little of that which I assert, but this 
is only in such cases where God in the scriptures 
touches on that which he has placed within our 
reason. Also, some passages of the original 
Bible, and of the German and French Bibles, 
prove my system to be somewhat better. For 
example, there are in the prophecies of the En- 
glish Bible, places given in the present time, 
which are in the future time in the original, and 
in the other Bibles, as it is Micah ii. 13. And 
other differences belonging to my system, as in 
Is. xlix. 17, where is written in the original and 
in the French and German Bibles : Thy children 
who shall build thee with joy, shall make haste. 
And in the English one : Thy children shall make 
haste : although many passages may be better 
or more correctly translated in the English Bible, 
than in others. Several ministers whom I made 
acquainted with this system, never paid sufficient 
attention to it ; thus it would have disheartened 



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me, if I had not clearly seen, that the reason 
of their neglect of my system was a certain tes- 
timony of its truth, because that reason was their 
personal love and friendship given to unbelievers, 
hypocrites and liars, without desiring it, and with- 
out knowing them ; so the reason of that is only 
misplaced and disordered kindness and love- — it 
is unregulated and misplaced love to God, and 
to their fellow-neighbors, and I believe the com- 
ing necessity of arranging this love of the two 
first commandments, will exhibit my system as 
the best method and plan for this important reg- 
ulation. The more we do for love's sake, the 
nearer we will come to the happiest aim. Here 
may justly be remarked, that if we give the 
divine wisdom and our earthly gifts and confi- 
dence to a true christian, then we can be assured 
that he will use that for a treasure in heaven ; 
but if we give them to unbelievers, then we can 
be sure that it will empower the devil, viz: it 
will empower certainly the general enemy of 
men, him who is against Jesus Christ, because 
he w T ho is not entirely for him, is entirely against 
him, and destroys. Jesus said further, Matt. viL 
6, Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither 
cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they tram- 
ple them under their feet, and turn again and 
rend you. And we know that every thing which 
comes from the holy, and which supports the 
holy, belongs also to that which is holy, to the 
faithful love, to the truth of God. The way by 
which God instructs the christian, is through 



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holy love to Jesus and to his heavenly doctrine. 
I endeavored to make that way and that love my 
steady leader, and so I improved this work from 
time to time; wherefore I now pronounce this 
edition much better than the German edition is, 
which I offered in the year 1842. Since that 
time, I have found every advice opposed to my 
whole system more false and erroneous, and I 
have also found friends for it, so, therefore, I 
zealously corrected this work in the above mark- 
ed way, and thus I feel myself finally satisfied 
with the liberal test of upright christians, re- 
membering that I do not wish to be understood 
to favor any particular sectarian construction of 
the Bible, but only desiring to progress and % 
to accomplish the holy duties of the purest gen- 
eral christian love to holiness; and repeating, 
that I understand that separation to be in ac- 
cordance with the whole contents of the Bible, 
to wit, a separation which, the more it is put 
into practice, the more it increases in spiritual 
power and theological superiority to convert the 
world to Jesus Christ, which ought to be the 
christian's first and greatest aim after his own 
sanctification. 



THE AUTHOR 



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John xiv. 21. — "He that loveth me shall be loved of 
mv Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to 
him/' 

Hose a it. 19. — "And I will betroth thee unto me for 
ever ; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and 
in judgment, and in loviug-kindness, and in mercies. 

20. — "I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness, 
and thou shalt know the Lord." 



UNIVERSAL SUMMONS 

TO THE 

WHOLE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY, 

To come out and to Realize the Contents of 
this Booh : 

AND PREPARE FOR THE 

CONSTITUTION OF THE HOLY CITY. 



CHAPTER I. 

1. The professions of the christians have 
done every thing to reach the highest degree of 
exactness, but they must ever again stop on a 
certain state of illustration, recoiling themselves 
to ruin, because the whole christian doctrine 
shall be used to purify and to perfect, and no 
purification is possible without a perfect refuge 
of the purified from the unclean. 

2. Therefore, repeated ruin always ensues 
principally from unbelief of a place of refuge 
for the purified, which place is named in the 
Bible, the Holy City, or the New Jerusalem; 
likewise, they neglected that commandment of 



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the Bible which is manifoldly pronounced in 
her, 2 Cor. vi. 17, And touch not the unclean 
thing. 

3. This belief is apparently abandoned en- 
tirely, that a christian can and shall attain a 
certain perfection previously on earth, although 
God himself commands it to us, and instructs us 
how, through the Bible, to do it ; for the external 
is the next condition to the internal, and only 
accomplishing that condition, then the Lord will 
dwell with us and walk among us. 

Num. xvi. 26. And he spake unto the congregation, say- 
ing, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked 
men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in 
all their sins. 

Lev. xxvi. 11. And I will set my tabernacle among you, 
and my soul shall not ahhor you. 

12. And I will walk among you, and will be your God, 
and ye shall be my people. 

Ez. xxxvii. 27. My tabernacle also shall be with them ; 
yes, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 

28. And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanc- 
tify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them 
for evermore. 

2 Cor. vi. 17. Wherefore come out from among them, and 
be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean 
thing ; and I will receive you. 

* 18. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my 
sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. 

Rev. xxi. 3. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, 
saying : Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he 
will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God 
himself shall be with them, and be their God. 

4. Likewise, they do not respect the belief in 
the community of the saints, which can get its 
perfect existence on earth, only by a perfect 



external community, although a pure soul alone 
can find that. 

Acts ii. 44. And all that believed were together, and 
had all things common. 

4-5. And sold their possessions and goods, and parted 
them to all men, as every man had need. 

5. Not without weighty motives is this belief 
of the New Jerusalem, emphatically confirmed 
in the Bible, for it contains another state, viz : 
— the highest state on earth of ransom from 
evil; and demands our entire separation from 
uncleanness, transposing already ourselves nearer 
to perfection on earth. 

6. It is written in Rev. xxi. 2, And I, John, 
saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, coming 
down from God out of heaven, prepared as a 
bride adorned for her husband. Only the fol- 
lowing interpretation thereof can be right : God 
is omnipresent, and heaven is everywhere ; where 
God is, we observe mostly this God of heaven in 
the souls of the most gentle christians, from 
where he does much good to men : through that 
holy spirit of the noblest of men, that city must 
be brought down by God on the earth. 

7. These noble christians procure for them- 
selves the greatest magnificence upon the earth 
through the building of a holy tabernacle of 
God, where they can freely express their rich 
hearts, by the unlimited appearance of all beau- 
ties of the earth ; thus must be fulfilled Rev. xxi. 
2, For, whatsoever God has determined, for that 
he has fixed a certain unfailing way to fulfil it, 



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and such a determination I describe with con- 
sciousness. 

Isa. xlvi. 11. Yea, I have spoken it, I tn!11 also bring it 
to pass ; I have purposed it, I will also do it: 

8. And our intention must ever be the 
straightest and purest way to accomplish our 
holiest duty of charity, however not to escape 
those pains and crosses which God burthens upon 
us, which we take from him with thanks as a 
mercy, being absolutely necessary to the human 
nature, in order to become improved and purified 
in true Christianity for heaven. Here I treat 
only of our sanctification and love in as far as 
we ourselves have to labor for that aim, the pale 
of sin, which remains everywhere in our flesh, 
will cause mortifying cross and pain in ourselves, 
as we deserve them inasmuch as we are not per- 
fectly subjected to Jesus Christ. 

2 Cor. xii. 7. And lest I should be exalted above measure 
through the abundance of the revelations, there was given 
to me a thorn in the flesh the messenger of Satan to buffet 
me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 

Ps. xvi. 7. My reins also chastise me in the night season. 



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CHAPTER II. 

1. It would be against the law of nature, 
against which its own Creator cannot be, if the 
pure in heart must live among malignant ; prin- 
cipally christians shall hate the bad, longing for 
the union with saints; hence, I will prove it 
again, that an entire separation from the unjust 
is perfectly right by our christian doctrine, with- 
out violating the love of fellow-men. 

Ps. lxxxiv. 5. Blessed are they that dwell in tfry house, 
they will be still praising thee. Selah. 

2. Should we be among the unrighteous to 
give them examples? Never: because a chris- 
tian is directly and alone commanded by Christ 
and his examples, — therefore they should not 
pretend that the infidels ought to follow the 
examples of the wicked. 

3. Or should w T e teach them orally, and thus 
expose our own soul to the destroyer? We ought 
not to act thus, knowing better ways to instruct 
all the people of the world by teaching them to 
read, and then they will receive the more confi- 
dence from their own associates ; and those who 
become zealous in reading the Bible, and treas- 
uring it up, will read all that it affords, and will 
be instructed by God himself; and those who do 
not receive the truth of Christ with special love, 



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are swines when compared with those pearls, and 
as they do not love to read it, they certainly do 
not desire to hear it. 

Isa. xlv. 15. Verily thou art a God that hideth thyself. 

God of Israel, the Saviour. 

4. Nevertheless, the heathen shall be taught 
in Christianity by the christians, but in a prudent 
manner, and respecting their other christian 
duty, they shall be always girded, that is, they 
shall not remain there ; and we shall ourselves 
be like people who wait for their Lord. And 
the old contemned Jerusalem was at her time as 
much as possible the meeting place of the com- 
munity of the holy : our New Jerusalem will suit 
far better than for that purpose. 

Luke xii. 35. Let your loius be girded about, and your 
lights burning. 

36. And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their 
Lord. 

Matt. x. 9. Provide neither gold nor silver, nor brass in 
your purses. 

5. The external separation of the noble chris- 
tian from the malignant men, and this gathering 
with many others of his equals, has also for its 
object to ennoble his sentiments, and to improve 
his perceptions, while the common world entan- 
gles the latter and spoils the first, but indepen- 
dent of that influence the noblest talents will far 
more enlighten it and improve the whole world. 

Zach. xii. 5. And the governors of Judah shall say in 
their heart: The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my 
strength in the Lord of hosts their God. 

6. Also, Jesus answered and said, faithless 



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and perverse generation, how long shall I be with 
you? (Matt. xvii. 17.) That suffering brings us 
so much easier to ruin, for we have been fallen, 
and now we are lifted up, and need so much more 
to disenthral ourselves from the down-drawing 
power. 

7. Further, said Christ, Matt. v. 13, Ye are 
the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its 
savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thence- 
forth good for nothing but to be cast out and to be 
trodden under foot of men. 14. Ye are the light 
of the world: A city that is set on a hill cannot 
be hid. 15. Neither do men light a candle and 
put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick ; and 
it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16. 
Let your light so shine before men, that they 
may see your good works, and glorify your 
Father who is in heaven. 

8. Should these words of Jesus contain the 
condition that we must live dissipated among 
the unrighteous men? I answer, No; for the 
entangled world of men covers with its errors 
the light of a christian, and hides it under lies, 
deceits, and persecutions, as if a light were cov- 
ered with a bushel ; but independent and taken 
from the secure of the unrighteous world, the 
true christian, improved in pure perception^, 
under-propped by his holy company as a light 
on a candlestick, put on a high place in the house 
of God, living only with the noblest christians, 
can shine before all men, that they may glorify 
their Father in heaven. 



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9. And the noblest men like best to do their 
good works secretly, as Jesus commanded, Matt. 
vL 1, Take heed that ye do not your alms before 
men, to be seen of them. Hence are those 
works, of which our Lord spoke, not the alms of 
the hand, but the spiritual products, or works, 
which shine before the mind of the people; and 
to do such works it is necessary to separate one- 
self from that which exerts an evil influence on 
the active mind, or from which those products be- 
come covered and darkened already in their 
beginning. 

10. Also the noblest can only thereby labor 
the most efficiently as salt of the earth, by as- 
sociating in a certain place, and by mutually 
strengthening each other, whence their collective 
and individual works would have by far more 
influence upon the whole world, than if they 
were scattered, concealed, and trodden under 
feet ; for this salting is not to be understood ma- 
terially but spiritually. 

11. Even nature itself teaches man; he be- 
comes gradually more foolish among the fools, 
and also destitute of prudence if he is living 
among the stupified, — how much more must be- 
come impure the heart of the wicked among the 
unclean ! 

Prov. xiii. 20. He that walketh with wise men shall be 
wise, but the companion of fools shall be destroyed. 

1 Tim. iv. 7. But refuse profane and old wives' fables, 
and exercise thyself rather unto godliness. 

2 Tim. ii. 16. But shun profane and vain babblings; for 
they will increase unto more ungodliness. 



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17. And their word will eat as doth a canker. 

21. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he 
shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and meet for the 
master's use, and prepared unto every good work. 

23. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing 
that they do gender strifes. 

James ii. 22. And by works was faith made perfect. 



CHAPTER III. 

I. However the commandments, Matt. v. 48, 
Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father 
who is in heaven is perfect, and Pet. i. 16, Be ye 
holy for I am holy, should show us, that the 
possibility thereof is laid near to us, even on our 
own earth, but yet the condition is self evident, 
and manifoldly mentioned in the Bible, that we 
have first to separate ourselves from all which 
hinder our perfection. 

Hebr. vi. 1: Therefore, leaving the principles of the doc- 
trine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying 
again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of 
faith toward God. 

2 : Of the doctrine of baptisms. 

3 : And this will we do, if God permit, 

4: For it is impossible for those, who were once enlight- 
ened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made 
partakers of the Holy Ghost, 
2* 



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5 : And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers 
of the world to come. 

6 : If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto re- 
pentance. 

2 Cor. iii. 17: That the man of God may be perfect, 
thoroughly furnished unto ail good works. 

2. Whoever imagines that he, his church, or 
his community could make him most possibly 
perfect on earth, is very much mistaken ; for 
this reason, because the heterodoxed, the super- 
stitious, the infidels, together with the malig- 
nant, will ever have the majority, even in the 
best congregation ; on account of the different in- 
tellectual states and degrees of mind, they can 
never perceive the best teachers of Christianity, 
choose and retain them for any time ; all the peo- 
ple can distinguish what is true, but the greatest 
part of them do not like to hear those portions of 
truths which require self-denial. In writing to 
christians I do not use the word preacher, because 
preachers are only ordered for the heathen and 
unbelievers. 

Matt, xxiii. 34 : Wherefore, behold, I send unto you proph- 
ets, and wise men, and scribes ; and some of them ye shall 
kill. 

1 Cor. xii. 28 : And God hath set some in the church, first 
apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers ; after that 
miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diver- 
sities of tongues. 

3. Yet the better portion of the communities 
has at least so much preponderance, promised 
from their Lord, through which an opportunity 
is given to every one to reach a certain degree 
of perfection ; but even this degree requires that 



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external condition, in order to increase the more, 
and to become perfect and holy, and if they do 
not receive this condition, it will happen both to 
them and their teachers, as St. Peter wrote, 2, 
xxii. The dog is turned to his own vomit again, 
and the sow that was washed, to her wallowing 
in the mire. Therefore learn to leave the world 
before the better world will leave you. 

James iv. 4 : Whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the 
•world is the enemy of God. 

4. The righteousness which our Lord requires 
is far from following man's examples, and from 
regarding human morals, as God's own word ; 
therefore the just are despised by a great party 
of mankind for their endeavoring to do the will 
of God. Contemn the search after the doctrines 
and examples of men ; therefore, many true chris- 
tians must have lived useless to the world, who 
might have sent the brilliant rays of Christianity 
from that state, which I will describe, into the 
world. 

Isa. xxxv. 8 : And an highway shall be there, and a way, 
and it shall be called : The way of holiness, the unclean 
shall not pass over it ; but it shall be for those, the way- 
faring men, though fools shall not err therein. 

5. Our whole plan is the best method to bring 
men to true perceptions of their eternal happiness 
by written productions, and likewise to keep the 
wicked on earth in the fear of God's word; be- 
cause, the malignant, its defilers, the more they 
desire to falsify the truth, the more they will 
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6. The Lord commanded, Matt. vi. 33, Seek 
ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteous- 
ness. And he said, Matt. xvi. 26, For, what is 
a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, 
and lose his own soul. If we wish to direct 
ourselves according to these words, and obey 
those, then we must not suffer ourselves to be 
disturbed by any worldly reflections, not being 
permitted to forestall the providence of God, for 
he governs the world, and has considered what 
he requires. 

2 Thess. iii. 6: Now we command yon, brethren, in the 
name of onr Lord Jesns Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves 
from every brother that walked disorderly, and not after the 
tradition which he received of us. 

2 Cor. vi. 15: And what concord hath Christ with Belial? 
or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel. 

7. That passage in Matt. xiii. 30, Let both 
grow together, might, perhaps cause another 
misunderstandsng, but the context shows a very 
different reference, as follows : 29, But he said : 
Nay, lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root 
up also the wheat with them. 30. Let both grow 
together until the harvest, and in the time of 
harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather ye 
together first the tares, and bind them in bundles 
to burn them, but gather the wheat into the barn. 
This root up cannot have any relation to our 
kind of separation, for in the first place it does 
not contain any rooting up, but properly rather 
a regulation, and secondly, because the Lord 
saith in the same place, until the harvest : — and 
our citizens must ever grow with the tares, 



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together, until the harvest, that is, until to their 
ability to become sealed, or for the principle of 
the New Jerusalem, " touch not the unclean. " 
We, also, certainly have harvest when we fulfill 
that which the Lord saith, Matt. ix. 36. But 
when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with 
compassion on them, because they fainted, and 
were scattered about as sheep having no shepherd. 

37. Then saith he unto his Disciples : The har- 
vest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. 

38. Pray, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, 
that he will send forth laborers into his harvest. 
This certifies not only the truth of our separating, 
but also that the laboring in the harvest, (and the 
cutting off,) must occasion a universal ordering 
and regulating of the flock of Christ. 

John iv. 35 : Say not ye : There are yet four months, and 
then cometh harvest ! Beheld, I say unto yon : Lift up your 
eyes, and look on the fields, for they are white already to 
harvest. 

36 : And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth 
fruit unto life eternal, that both he that soweth and he that 
reapeth may rejoice together. 

37: And herein is that saying true: One soweth and 
another reapeth. 

38: I send you to reap. 



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CHAPTER IV. 

1. Go ye out from the hurtful world away 
from the malignant, deceitful and shameless men, 
and separate yourselves, saith the Lord of hosts, 
and be ye blind and deaf again all the bad, and 
ignore ye unrighteousness, then I will receive you, 
and will be your Father, and ye shall be my sons 
and daughters said the Almighty Lord ! 

Rom. xvi- 17: Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them 
who cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine 
which ye have learned, and from them turn away. 

2. According to that, is also written in 2 Cor. 
vi. 16. And what agreement hath the Temple of 
God with idols ! For ye are the Temple of the 
living God, as God hath said : I will dwell in 
them, and walk among them, and I will be their 
God, and they shall be my people. 17. Where- 
fore come out from among them, and be ye 
separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the un- 
clean thing, and I will receive you, 18. And 
will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my 
sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. 
If these passages w r ere mere quotations from the 
prophets, then they should be written in the same 
words, but as an evidence of the Apostle's own 
persuasion, and because it is a commandment of 
God to the christians too, is here added: and be 



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ye separate ; for the Creator directed this great 
law of nature to us, as an emphatical, real law, 
in different ways, because the christians, who 
must separate themselves and come together, 
have different degrees of education, and equals 
may join each other in different communities, all 
united for the one design. 

3. In Solomon's Proverbs is the separation 
of the wise people from the bad and foolish, 
manifoldly commanded, and in Solomon's preach- 
er, iii. 5. is said : A time to cast away stones and 
and a time to gather stones together. Since 
Christ is presented as a keystone, we can take 
his gentle christians as stones, belonging to him, 
and so, also, the time is come both in the spirit- 
ual and material sense, for the building of the 
city, to collect together the stones. 

4. What said Isaiah, xlviii. 20 : Go ye forth 
of Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans ; with a 
voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even 
to the end of the earth, say ye : The Lord hath 
redeemed his servant Jacob. And in lii. 11 : De- 
part ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no 
unclean thing ; go ye out of the midst of her, be 
ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord. 12. 
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by 
flight, for the Lord will go before you, and the 
God of Israel will be your reward. 

5. What saith Jeremiah, li. 6. Flee out of 
the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his 
soul ; be not cut off in her iniquity ; for this is 
the time of the Lord's vengeance ; he will render 



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unto her a recompense. 45. My people, go ye 
out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man 
his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord. 

6. This is also commanded in the New Tes- 
tament, not only spiritually but materially, by 
three different ways, and by three different wit- 
nesses, through Jesus, through the Apostles, and 
through the Revelation of St. John ; through the 
conscience directed by Christ, through the spirit 
of the Gospel, and through the natural condition 
to perfect ourselves. Already conscience of itself, 
and much more when it is enlightened by the 
doctrine of Jesus, prevents man treating with 
dissolute persons until he separates from them, 
for it feels that it becomes corrupted in their 
company, and the doctrine of Jesus said, too, 
Matt. vi. 24, Ye cannot serve God and Mam- 
mon. Or — 

Matt. v. 29 : And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, 
and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee, that one 
of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body 
should be cast into hell. 

30 : And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast 
it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy 
members should perish, and not that thy whole body should 
be cast into hell. Mark ix. 49. 

Matt. x. 28 : But rather fear him which is able to destroy 
both soul and body in hell. 

The word materially shaU not be understood concerning 
victuals, or simple natural ingredients, as says the Acts, x. 
14, 15 : What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common, 
and Matt. xv. 11 : But let it be understood a wise regulation 
of surrounding objects. 

7. It is indeed a subject which is self-evident, 
that no one can be so perfect as it behooves a 



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christian to be on earth, without being as much 
as possible separated from the evil minded, going 
to the company of his equals, who are directly 
governed by the will of the Lord. The apostles 
could not urge upon that going out ere their gos- 
pel was everywhere known, and ere all and every 
people had sufficient opportunities to declare 
themselves for it, or against it, in acts and words, 
nevertheless they have writings enough from 
which this separation is manifest. 

Hos. ii. 14 : Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and 
bring her into the wilderness and speak comfortably unto 
her. 

2 Pet. ii. 20 : For if after they have escaped the pollutions 
of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour 
Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and over- 
come : the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 

iii. 13 : Nevertheless, we according to his promise, look 
for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth right- 
eousness. 

1 John ii. 15 : Love not the world, neither the things that 
are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of 
the Father is not in him. 

iii. 3 : And every man that hath this hope in him puri- 
neth himself, even as he is pure. 

3 John vii : Because that for his name's sake they went 
forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. 

John xi. 52 : And not for that nation only, but that also 
he should gather together in one the children of God that 
were scattered abroad. 

Heb. xiii. 14 : For here have we no continuing city, but 
we seek one to come. 

Gal. ii. 5: To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not 
for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue 
with you. 

Eph. v. 7 : Be not ye therefore partakers with them. 
11. And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of 
darkness, but rather rebuke them. 

3 



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2 Cor. vi. 14 : Be ye not unequally yoked together with 
unbelievers; for what fellowship hath righteousness with 
unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with 
darkness? etc. 

8. The revelation of St. John contains this 
passage, xviii. 4, And I heard another voice from 
heaven, saying, come out of her my people, that 
ye be -not partakers of her sins, and that ye re- 
ceive not of her plagues. 5. For her sins have 
reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered 
her iniquities. To recognize these passages it is 
not necessary to know anymore, than that they 
are true and genuine as well as the other of the 
New Testament, and if these had not the same 
proofs of genuineness, how long ago and how 
willingly would not these, considered as irrational 
and foolish, have been cast from the Bible, for 
false theologians are always ready to reject; this 
they proved by rejecting parts of the scriptures, 
which they did not understand. We now under- 
stand that voice, and know, that it comes from 
heaven, therefore, wo to those who will not obey 
God's commandments. 

Isa. li. 11 : Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall re- 
turn, and come with singing unto Zion, and everlasting joy ; 
and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. 

lvi. 8 : The Lord God, who gathereth the outcasts of Is- 
rael, saith: Yet will I gather others to him besides those 
that are gathered unto him. 



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CHAPTER V. 

1. The noblest and greatest christians, who 
shall now go out from the unrighteous world, will 
go with the consciousness of justifiable conquer- 
ors, for they have been victorious in long and 
troublesome wars against heterodoxy and infidel- 
ity, and over the many errors ; therefore the real 
courage will have made within them its dwelling, 
and they will prove themselves with mighty power 
as kings of truth ; for who are they ? who are 
conquered by them ? They are those who put 
each other to sleep in self-invented righteousness 
by their own ordinances from which they cannot 
awake and disenthrall themselves, being desti- 
tute of the power of free consideration. 

Isa. lv. 11 : So shall my word be that goeth forth out ©f 
my mouth : it shall not return unto me void, but it shall ac- 
complish that which I please, and it shall prosper to the 
thing whereto I sent it. 

12 : For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with 
peace : the mountains and the hills shall break forth before 
you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap 
their hands. 

13 : Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and 
instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree : and it 
shall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign that 
shall not be cut off. 

xlii. 13 : The Lord shall go forth as a mighty man, he 
shall stir up jealousy like a man of war: he shall cry, yea, 
roar; he shall prevail against his enemies. 

1 Tim. vi. 3 : If any man teach otherwise, and consent 
not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus 
Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness, 

4 : He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about ques- 
tions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, 
railings, evil surmisings. 



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5 : Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and des- 
titute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness ; from 
such withdraw thyself. 

Zach. x. 3: Mine anger was kindled against the shep- 
herds, and I punished the goats : for the Lord of hosts hath 
visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as 
his goodly horse in the battle. 

Isa. xxxiv. 8: For it is the day of the Lord's vengeance, 
and the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. 

Rev. xii. 7 : And there was war in heaven : Michael and 
his angels fought against the dragon ; and the dragon fought 
and his angels, 

8. And prevailed not ; neither was their place found 
any more in heaven. 

9. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, 
called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole 
world : he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were 
cast out with him. 

2. They have not a sufficient estimation of 
Jesus Christ, and no fear of God to value and 
to strive after the true knowledge of Him and 
his Son ; it is this which the Holy Spirit abhors ; 
wherefore they deserve his anger, for the anger 
of the Holy Ghost is God's zealous love to pun- 
ish men that they may become better. 

Matt. xii. 31: Wherefore I say unto you, all manner of 
sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men : but the blas- 
phemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto 
men. 

32 : And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of 
man, it shall be forgiven him : but whosoever speaketh 
against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither 
in this world, neither in the world to come. 

1 Tim. i: Now the spirit speaketh expressly, that in the 
latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed 
to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. 

2: Speaking lies in hypocrisy: having their conscience 
seared with a hot iron. 

3 : Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from 



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meat, which God hath created to be received with thanks- 
giving of them which believe and know the truth. 

2 Tim. Hi. 1 : This know also, that in the last days peril- 
ous times shall come. 

5 : Having a form of Godliness, but denying the power 
thereof : from such turn away. 

8 : Now as Jamas and Jannes withstood Moses, so do 
these also resist the truth : men of corrupt minds, reprobate 
concerning the faith. 

3. Improvement is scarcely now to be effected 
by punishment, for they no longer understand 
it, nor the hint from God, interpreting them ail- 
so as to confirm their self-invented righteousness, 
in which their intellect is captivated, and in 
which their revellous sentiments are loosed: there- 
fore, their whole wrong Christianity be now 
seized, and the pernicious dragon, and they the 
old serpent will no more find authority in the 
governments of the true christians, but the open 
and true reflecting men will see the wrong chris- 
tians fettered in extreme darkness of erroneous 
opinions, of insanity, of delirium, and of self- 



Rev, xx. 1 : And I saw an angel come down from heaven, 
having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great chain in 
his hand. 

2 : And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, 
which is the devil, and satan, and bound him a thousand 
years. 

3 : And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him 
up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the na- 
tions no more, etc. 

2 Peter, iii. 8 : But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one 
thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, 
and a thousand years as one day. 

John v. 45. Do not think that I will accuse you to theFath- 




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er ; there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, in whom ye 
trust. 

viii. 50: And I seek not mine own glory; there is one 
that seeketh and judgeth. 

Hab. i. 4: Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment 
doth never go forth ; for the wicked doth compass about the 
righteous, therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. 

Zach. xi. 1G: For lo, I will raise up a Shepherd in the 
land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall 
seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken ; nor feed 
that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the 
fat, and tear their claws in pieces. 

4. How many are there who often go to the 
Lord babbling prayers without even permitting 
a ray of sincerity to enter their hearts ; many 
swear falsely, many lie, many defraud, and many 
abuse the holy name of the Lord in different 
ways, and many are debauched and strive to 
mislead. Many, with the impertinence of the 
false prophet, assert that the Holy Ghost was 
preaching out of their mouth, whilst they utter 
nonsense like croaking frogs ; so it sounds to the 
ears of those who are friends to the spirit of 
truth. So often as this happens the Holy Ghost 
becomes slandered; and lying, they say that the 
Holy Ghost speaks out of their mouths — they 
take captive tender and religious souls, but only 
such as are yet ignorant, and they lay them 
down in chains of horrible errors, making them 
insane by the aid of magic of the animal facul- 
ties of the mind : some of them are crying like 
the liar, and roaring insanity like the lion. 

Amos viii. 3 : And the songs of the church shall be howl- 
ings in that day, saith the Lord God ; there shall be many 



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dead bodies in every place : they shall cast them forth with 
silence. 

4 : Hear this, ye that swallow up the needy, even to 
make the poor of the land to fail. 

Micah vii. 4 : The best of them is as a briar ; the most 
upright is sharper than a thorn hedge; the day of thy 
watchmen and thy visitation cometh ; now shall be their 
perplexity. 

James v. 4 : Behold, the hire of the laborers who have 
reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by 
fraud, crieth ; and the cries of them which have reaped are 
entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 

Eev. xvi. 13: And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs 
come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth 
of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. 

14: For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, 
which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole 
world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God 
Almighty. 

Mai. ii. 1 : And now, ye priests, this commandment is 
for you. 

2: If ye w r ill not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart, 
to give glory unto my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will 
even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings ; 
yea, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it 
to heart. 

iii. 3: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; 
and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as 
gold and silver; that they may offer unto the Lord an offer- 
ing in righteousness. 

4 ; Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be 
pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in 
former years. 

5: And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will 
be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the 
adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those 
that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the 
fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, 
and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts. 

9 : Ye are cursed with a curse for ye have robbed me, 
even this w T hole nation. 

ii. 13: And this have ye done again, covering the altar of 



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the Lord with tear?, with weeping, and with sighing, inso- 
much that I regardeth not the offering any more, or receiv 
eth it with good will at your hand. 

Isa. xlvii. 9 : But these two things shall come to thee in a 
moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood; 
they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multi- 
tude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine 
enchantments. 

Ezek. xiii. 20: Wherefore thus saith the Lord God: Be- 
hold, I am against your pillows, where with ye there hunt 
the souls to encourage* them, and I will tear them from 
your arms, and will let the souls go, even the souls that ye 
hunt to encourage them. 

21 : Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people 
out of your hand ; and they shall be no more in your hand 
to be hunted, and ye shall know that I am the Lord. 

Hos. vii. 16: They return, but not to the Most High; 
they are like a deceitful bow; their princes shall fall by the 
sword for the rage of their tongue, this shall be their de- 
rision in the land of Egypt. 

Jude 10 : But these speak evil of those things which they 
know not ; but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, 
in those things they corrupt themselves. 

11 : Wo unto them ! for they have gone in the way of Cain, 
and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and 
perished in the gainsaying of Korah. 

12: These are spots in your feasts of charity, etc. 

2 Pet. ii. 12: But these, as natural brute beasts, made to 
be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they 
understand not, and shall utterly perish to their own cor- 
ruption. 

iii. 3 : Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last 
days scoffers, walking after their own lusts. 

4; And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For 
since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they 
were from the beginning of the creation. 

Matt. xxiv. 28: Wheresoever the carcase is, there will 
the eagles be gathered together. 

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5. All those are judged according to 2 Thes. 
ii. 8 to 12 : for they are untirely unchangable, 
wholly useless, incapable of truth, unfit for 
heaven, condemned to extreme darkness of error, 
a terror and wonder to the true christian ; and it 
will become clearer and more evident how the 
lake of fire burning with brimstone is the part 
of those who lie, defraud, swear falsely, and serve 
their basest animal propensities, and into which 
will be cast alive too, all those who do not profit of 
the talents the Lord gave them, and all who do not 
seek first the kingdom of God and his righteous- 
ness, and all that refuse the merciful offering of 
redemption through the holy trinity. 

Matt. xiii. 47 : The kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, 
that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind. 

48 : Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and 
sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the 
bad away. 

49 : So shall it be at the end of the world ; the angel shall 
come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just. 

50: And shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there 
shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 

2 Thess. ii. 8: And then shall that wicked be revealed, 
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, 
and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. 

9 : Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan, 
with all power and signs and lying wonders. 

10 : And with all deceivableness and unrighteousness in 
them that perish ; because they received not the love of 
the truth, that they might be saved. 

11 : And for this cause God shall send them strong delu- 
sion, that they should believe a lie. 

Heb. vi. 8 : But that which beareth thorns and briars is 
rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned. 

2 Cor. i. 21 : Now he which stablisheth us with you in 



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Christ, and hath anointed us, is God. 22 ; Who hath also 
sealed us, and given the earnest of the spirit in our hearts. 

Rev. xix. 20 : And the beast was taken and with him 
the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, 
with which he deceived them that had received the mark of 
the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both 
were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. 

xxii. 11: He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and 
he who is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is 
righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy , 
let him be holy still.- 

6. But we must separate ourselves still, and 
where our adversaries will, in any wise, stop us 
on our way, there they shall be stricken off with 
the sharp sickle of the sealed servants of God ; 
and where they will kill with the sword, there 
they ought to be two-fold punished by us, £or it is 
declared Neh. i. 2 and B Rev. xviii. 6 : reward her 
even as she rewarded you, and double unto her 
double according to her works : in the cup which 
she hath filled, fill to her double ; because we 
have the assurance through the perfect faith of 
the holy scriptures, whose servants light up our 
ways, and assist us, that we are the real true in- 
struments of God, to achieve his purpose on 
earth. And the public jurisdiction by the whole 
people chosen, is our just means given by God, 
to do this first duty, namely to punish as we 
wish to be punished. 

Amos v. 24: But let judgment run down as waters, and 
righteousness as a mighty stream. 

Micah. ii. 13 : The breaker w-ill come up before them ; 
they will break up and will pass through the gate : and will 
go out by it : * and their king shall pass before them, and 
the Lord on the head of them. 



*In Hebrew it is future, viz : parzu vajaa aboru. 



Heh. xxix: Of how touch sorfei? punishment, suppose ye, 
shall be thought worthy, wh,o hath trodden under feet the 
Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant 
wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done 
despite unto the spirit of grace. 

30 : For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belong- 
eth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again : 
The Lord shall judge his people. 

31 : It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the liv- 
ing God. 

2 Tim. ii. 25 : In meekness instructing those, that oppose 
themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repen- 
tance to the acknowledging of the truth. 

26 : And that they may recover themselves out of the 
devil, who are taken captive by him at his will. 

Tit. i. 13: This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them 
sharply, that they may be sound in the faith* 

ii. 15: These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with 
all authority. Let no man despise thee. 

Matt. x. 34 : Think not that I am come to send peace on 
earth ; I came not to send peace, but a sword. 

Luke xii. 51 : Suppose ye that I am come to give peace 
on earth ? I tell you, nay, but rather division. 

xxii. 36. Then said he unto them : But now, he that hath 
a purse, let him take it, and likewise his scrip : and he that 
hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one. 

2 Cor. x. 6: And having in a readiness to revenge all 
disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 

7. And when the force of our punishing and 
chastising and our gathering into the great wine 
press of the wrath of God, will be pronounced a 
passion of revenge and hatred, then we have 
to answer. So our Lord saith, Matt. vii. 12 : 
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would, that 
men should do to you, do you even so to them ; 
for this is the law and the prophets. Now how 
can he be a true christian, who does not wish to 



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be chastised for his sins by those whom he has 
offended, that he may perceive his faults and re- 
pent, impressed with the fear of God on account 
of the eternal punishments, where no longer help 



Ps. cxli. 5 : Let the righteous smite me ; it shall be a 
kindness : and let him reprove me ; it shall be an excellent oil. 

Luke xvii. 3 : Take head to yourselves : If thy brother 
trespass against thee, rebuke him, and if he repent forgive him. 

Matt, xviii. 15-1 Tim. i. 20: Of whom is Hymenseus and 
Alexander, whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they 
may learn not to blaspheme. 

v. 20 : Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also 
may fear. 

Matt, xxiii. 23 : "Wo unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hyp- 
ocrits ! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and 
have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, 
mercy and faith : these ought ye to have done, and not to 
leave the other undone. 

Isa. lvi. 8 : The Lord God, which gathered the outcasts of 
Israel saith : Yet will I gather others to him, besides that 
those that are gathered unto him. 

%: lviii. 1. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a 
trumpet, and shew my people their transgressions and the 
house of Jacob their sins. 

lxii. 10 : Go through, go through the gates, prepare ye the 
way of the people, cast up, cast up the highway ; gather 
out the stones ; lift up a standard for the people. 

lxvi. 13 : As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I 
comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem. 

Rev. xiv. 19: And the angel thrust in his sickle into the 
earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into 
the great wine-press of the wrath of God. 

Joel iii. 18 : Put ye in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe ; 
come get ye down, for the press is full, the press overflows, 
for their wickedness is great.* 




^Hebrew : the pressing thing, hajekabimfats is wrong. 



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22 : So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwell- 
ing m Zion, my holy monntain. Then shall Jerusalem be 
holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more. 



CHAPTER VI. 

1. As certain as we live, so certain too must 
we hate the bad, and at the same time love the men 
among whom it exists and whom it afflicts, there- 
fore we must hate our sojourn among men, and 
as true as it is, that the most perfect spirit crea- 
ted us, so true it is too, that he cannot wish us 
to live there, where we must hate our stay, nor 
there, where our body and spirit become ruined, 
but just so certain he wishes that we should live 
in that place for which we are perfectly fitted. 
And so true as God himself through whom we 
exist, requires us to hate our stay among men, 
so true must God have destined for us an abode 
in and for our earthly nature, and must desire from 
us, that we should seek it and dwell in it as the first 
progress to the eternal life, or to live most pos- 
sibly perfect, far from the bad, in company with 
those who do not touch unclean things, and as 
true as we are living corporeally and spiritually, so 
true must be that abode material and spiritual, 
that is, it must present the spirit in its body and 

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the body in its spirit, the spirit of all percep- 
tions, knowledge and sciences. 

John xii. 25 : He that loveth his life shall lose it, and he 
that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life 
eternal. 

Matt. x. 39 : He that findeth his life shall lose it ; and 
he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it. 

Mark viii. 35: For whosoever will save his life shall 
lose it ; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and 
the gospel's, the same shall save it. 

2. As true as sin exists, it works destruction 
to him who commits it, and to him who must an* 
imadvert it, for it brings evil thoughts and grief 
on him, all which help to destroy his body and 
to ruin his spirit. Therefore, so true as we have 
existence, we must form us an holy abode and an 
holy constitution on earth, wherein sin is not an- 
imadverted in accordance with those directions 
as the true living God has given us through the 
holy scriptures in unity with his creation, for 
which we are wholly, both spiritually and cor- 
poreally, suited. 

Zach. viii. 4: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall 
yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, 
and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. 

5. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and 
girls playing on her streets. 

7. Thus saith the Lord of hosts : Behold, I will save my 
people from the east country, and from the west country. 

8. And I will bring them and they shall dwell in midst of 
Jerusalem ; and they shall be my people, and I will be their 
God, in truth and in righteousness. 

Rev. x. 5: And the angel which I saw stand upon the 
sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven. 

6. And sware by him that liveth forever and ever. 



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3. So true as the living christians must com- 
bat with, and write against the bands of contra- 
dictors and heretics in order to justify the truth, 
and to chastise them ; and so true as the living 
illustriousness of the holy christian belief, ori- 
ginates not only from books, but from a living 
righteous christian life, from a holy conversation 
and from a holy surrounding company ; so true 
also is the achievement of this proposition a 
needful condition for a complete general and true 
victory of the christians over the obscurants. I will 
now describe it in the manner in which it alone 
can be correct, first having laid the keystone of 
this work against the unbelievers, namely the 
belief which the builders rejected, as it is written. 

Matt. xxi. 42 : Jesus saithunto them : Did ye never read 
in the scriptures, the stone which the builders rejected, the 
same is become the head of the corner. This is the Lord's 
doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes. 

Rom. ix. 33 : Behold I lay in Zion a stumbling stone, and 
rock of offence ; and whosoever believeth on him shall not 
be ashamed. 

1 Peter, 2. 6, 7. 8. 

4. Although I could not explain any better 
in this book all the reasons of my ordinations, 
for they are so manifold, and many of them so 
deeply hid in the true spirit of the Bible and of 
nature, that it would have lost its clearness 
through the mass of explanations ; yet I hope 
that the pure christian belief has afforded so 
much intelligence and love of truth among the 
people of this age, that this writing will find 
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promulgate and to assert it openly, and the 
attention to this object will be rewarded richly , 
by the spirit of truth and its power. 

Zach. ix. 10: And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, 
and the horse from Jerusalem, and the battle-bow shall be 
cut off: and he shaU speak peace unto the heathen ; and his 
dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river 
even to the ends of the earth. 

16: And the Lord their God shall save them in that day 
as the flock of his people, for they shall be as the stones 
of a crown lifted up upon his land.f 

Mich. iv. 1 : But in the last days it shall come to pass 
that the mountain of the house of the Lord, shall be estab- 
lished in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted 
above the hills; and people shall flow. 

Matt. xiii. 41 : The son of man shall send forth his angels 
and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that 
offend, and them which do iniquity. 

xxiv. 37 , But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the 
coming of the Son of Man be, etc. 

Rev. xi. 19 : And the temple of God was opened in heav- 
en, and there was seen in his temple the ark of the testa- 
ment, jand there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, 
and an earthquake, and great hail. 

See Psalm xxvi. 



f As an ensign is not written in Hebrew, there is abntt-neser , which 
signifies only the stone of a crown. 



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CHAPTER VII. 



CONSTITUTION OF THE HOLY CITY. 

Heb. viii. 10: For this is the covenant that I will make 
with the house of Israel after these days, saith the Lord ; 
I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their 
hearts; and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to 
me a people. 

1. In this constitution the general conditions 
of the holy demeaner are only possible to be 
fulfilled by men of the same mind, and consist 
in omitting evil, thus they live already in the 
heart of the noble christians, and they are these : 

2. Hast thou repented in strong belief to 
Jesus Christ, thy last conscious sin, then knowing 
thy self through his sacrifice reconciled to God, im- 
mediately thou shalt not look upon it any more, 
but go straight forward on thine path of life and 
thou shalt not look back on sin. This is the 
way to become th e most tender sensibility of sin, 
and thou wilt more easily avoid it in future, 
whilst thereby becomes ennobled the sight of thy 
soul, and refined thy feelings, and thou wilt look 
with more circumspection on thy present act; 
to which then leads the Spirit of the Father and 
of the Son. 

Luke xvii. 32 : Remember Lot's wife. 
Ezek. i. 9: Their wings were joined one to another, they 
turned not when they went ; they went every one straight 



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forward. 12 : And they went every one straight forward ; 
whither the spirit was to go they went ; and they turned 
not when they went. 

Heb. viii. 12: For I will be merciful to their unrighteous- 
ness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no 
more. 

xii. 14: Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without 
which no man shall see the Lord. 

Isa. xliii. 18: Remember ye not former things, neither 
consider the things of old. 

1 Johnii. 27: But the anointing, which ye have received 
of him, abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach 
you ; but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, 
and it is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, 
ye shall^ abide in him. 

1 Pet. i. 16: Because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy. 

Lev. xi. 44 : For I am the Lord your God ; ye shall there- 
fore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy ; for I am holy; 
neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creep- 
ing thing that creepeth upon the earth. 

Matt, xxiii. 33 : Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers ! 
how can ye escape the damnation of hell. 

Job i. 8 : And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou con- 
sidered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the 
earth, a perfect and upright man, one that feareth God and 
escheweth evil. 

ii. 3 : Said the Lord the same, and escheweth evil. 

3. Do not contemplate any bad action of a 
single individual, neither in present, nor past 
time, unless thou must examine it whether it 
is good, nor mistrust any single person with a 
bad action in the future ; but where thou hast 
much cause to do it, whilst thou are not yet 
living among the holies, there thou shalt sepa- 
rate them from thyself, or flee away from there, 
that thou mayest not become unclean. These are 
the primary principles of our constitution, known 
and impressed by every member, they render 



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the whole being of man, with the help of the 
gospel, holy, and are the only true that are pos- 
sible to be carried out, therefore they are much 
and manifoldly attested by the bible, which I 
desire my kind reader may peruse. 

Ps. xxxviii. 14: But I must be like a deaf man, that hear 
not, and like a dumb man, that does not open his mouth. * 

15: And must be like one who hear not, and in whose 
mouth is no reproof. 

Isa. xlii. 18: Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye 
may see. 

19: Who is blind, but my servant? who is deaf, as my 
messenger, that I send ? who is blind as he that is perfect ? 
and blind as the Lord's servant. 

xliii. 8: Bring forth the blind people that have eyes, and 
the deaf that have ears. 

xxxiii. 24 : And the inhabitant shall not say, I am weak ; 
the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. 

xxxviii. 17 : Behold, for consolation I had great bitterness. 
But thou hast in love to my soul delivered me from the pit 
of corruption ; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 

xliv. 22 : I have plotted out, as a cloud, thy transgres- 
sions, and as a fog,f thy sins : Return unto me ; for I have 
redeemed thee. 

Heb. v. 14: But strong victuals J belongeth to the perfect 
men,§ those who by reason of use have their senses exercised 
to discern good and bad. 

4. A single person cannot perpetrate any 
bad action wholly willing, and entirely conscious 
of it, for that inextinguishable principle, consci- 
ousness, is always in him in some degree ; there- 
fore we cannot hear or see any bad in his true 

*Ps. xxxviii. in Hebrew verses 14 and 15, not I was as a — it is vaaJii, 
the future. 

f In Hebrew the word eloud is not repeated ; the second word anan 
signifies thick fog. 

Not strong meat; tropJie is victuals. 
Not of full age ; teleion, signifies perfect, 



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state of existence, without rendering ourselves 
spiritually unclean, in animadverting to what is 
done without truth, for truth is conscience ; ac- 
cording to this, search the scripture of Sirach in 
chap. 7, 40, Luke 23, 54. " Father forgive 
them, for they know not what they do.' , This 
is conceivable as really true and natural, and 
produces its many proofs that man's proper will 
and understanding are at that time not present 
in himself when he is doing bad, although he 
would have been capable of the consideration of 
acting in accordance with the will of God, admo- 
nished by his conscience ; but this admonishing 
perished in him as soon as he complied with the 
instincts of his animal nature, and used his 
intellect as an instrument of its will, instead of 
the will of God. 

Luke x. 19 : Behold I give unto you power to tread on 
serpents and scorpions ; and over all the power of the ene- 
my ; and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 

Ezek. viii. 9 : And he said unto me, Go in and behold the 
wicked abominations that they do here. 

10: So I went in and saw; and behold, every form of 
creeping things, and abominable beasts and all the idols of 
the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about. 

Ps. xci. 13 : Thou shalt tread upon any lion and adder, 
the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under 
feet. 

5. In that manner many sensually disposed 
men of similar character form one bad beast of 
a peculiar character, by the energy and strife of 
their whole sensual nature ; but of this a person 
may be ignorant, yet a member of the same ani- 
mal, for no person would like to be such if aware 



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of it, but the unrighteous life of such a one can 
only accord with the sensuality of his debased 
nature, that is, with the whole character of his 
animal nature ; thus the sensually disposed, or 
unrighteous men, form on earth different great and 
mighty animals with intellect, which differ accord- 
ing to their general character but whose intellect 
is swayed by and subserving to the will of their 
manifold hidden instincts. The existence of 
these beasts of the earth is suffered by God for a 
determined time, and is therefore good in itself, 
like the existence of the other bad and poisonous 
animals on earth. 

Acts x. 12 : Wherein were all manner of four-footed beasts 
of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and 
fowls of the air. 

13: And the voice spake unto him again the second time: 
What God hath cleansed, that call* not thou common. 

1 Tim. iv. 4: For every creature of God is good, and 
nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 

Titus i. 15 : Unto the pure, all things are pure ; but unto 
them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure ; but 
even their mind and conscience is defiled. 

Dan. vii. 3 : And four great beasts came up from the sea, 
diverse one from another. 

Rev. xiii. 2 : And the beast which I saw was like unto a 
leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his 
mouth as the mouth of a lion ; and the dragon gave him his 
power, etc. 

6. He who has been convinced of the truth 
of the preceding of this chapter, rightly under- 
stands the mystery in the Kevelation, xvii. 7, 8 : 
The beast that was and is not, and yet is. Verily, 
this is the seal of the living God, who vivified 
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becomes new, and as a new heaven to him the 
universe is rendered. 

Isa. lxv. 17* For behold, I create a new heaven and a 
new earth ; and the former shall not be remembered, nor 
come into mind. 

18: But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I 
create; for behold I will create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and 
her people a joy. 

2 Peter iii. 13: Nevertheless we, according to his promise, 
look for new heavens, and a new earth, wherein dwelleth 
righteousness. 

And when through our labor we will have reached 
that place, where we will no more be contami- 
nated by these beasts of the earth, and that these 
may be there, where they cannot prevent us from 
contemplating the good, then we will hear and 
see clearer and clearer heaven around us, and 
the earth in it ; and in the same degree that these 
bad animals of the earth are not there for us, in 
the same degree we will grow in holiness and 
happiness on the new earth, and in the new 
heaven, by the always purer and less defiled be- 
holding of everything. 

Matt. xix. 21 : Jesus saith unto him, If thou wilt be per- 
fect, go and sell that thou hast and give to the poor, and 
thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come and follow me, 

2 Cor. iii. 3 : Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to 
be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with 
ink, but with the spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, 
but in fleshly tables of the heart* 

Isa. xxxiii. 15: He that walketh righteously and speaketh 
uprightly, he that despiseth the gain of oppresions, that 
shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his 
ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from see- 
ing evil. 

16 : He shall dwell on high ; his place of defence shall be 



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the munitions of rocks ; bread shall be given kim; his wa- 
ter shall be sure. 

17 : Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty ; they 
shall behold the land that is very far off, etc. 

7. Therefore thou shalt disenthral thyself 
from every defilement, or from all viewing of 
evils, and thou shalt put thy whole attention on 
thy present action, or consider well what thou 
art about to do, that thou mayest neither do any 
wrong nor say any sin. 

James iv. 13 : Go to now, ye that say: To-day or to-mor- 
row we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, 
and buy and sell, and get gain. 

14: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. 

15 : For that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall 
live, and do this, or that. 

Phil. iii. 13 : Brethren, I count not myself to have ap- 
prehended ; but this one thing I do, forgetting those things 
which are behind. 

14 : I press toward the mark for the prize of the high 
calling of God in Christ Jesus. 

15 : Let us, therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus 
minded ; and if in anything ye be otherwise minded, God 
shall reveal even this unto you. 

8. It follows out of this, that we are subject 
to no more negations, for we do not hear any 
lies ; but considering that the languages of men 
are very imperfect, we must only regard the 
idea, if it is only good, although the words should 
not indicate a knowledge of language. 

2 Cor. i. 19: For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was 
preached among you by us, even by me and Sylvanus, and 
Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. 

20 : For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him 
amen, unto the glory of God by us. 

Rev, also see 5 Deut xxxiii. 9. 



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i. 7 : Behold he cometh with clouds. [That is also with 
regard to incomprehensible things.] 

Pvev. xxii. 20: He who testifieth these things saith : Surely 
I come quickly, amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. 

9. It follows further, that we have no longer 
any real beseechings, because the good which we 
contemplate will undoubtedly give us the best 
which we can wish, and really be in need of. 
Thereby our prayers will be purified and changed 
into holy discourses with God, like unto a bride 
uttering her sentiments to her bridegroom. 

Jas. i. 6: But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. 
For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with 
the wind and tossed. 

Isa. lxv. 24: And it shall come to pass, that before they 
call, I will answer, and while they are yet speaking, I will 
hear, 

Hos. ii. 14: Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring 
her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. 

19 ; And will betroth thee unto me for ever. 

Matt. vi. 6 : But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy 
closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father 
who is in secret; and thy Father, who seeth in secret, shall 
reward thee openly. 

7 : But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the 
heathen do ; for they think that they shall be heard for their 
much speaking. 

8 : Be not ye therefore like unto them ; for your Father 
knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. 

10. To him, who at length perceived within 
and around himself the most possible purity on 
earth, as I have described it above, or to whom 
heaven and earth are became new, is to fulfil the 
the Lord's prayer, Matt. vi. 9 : Nevertheless al- 
ways to meet great misapprehensions, we must 
at all times remember, that as long as we are 



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human beings, we will have to encounter those 
contempts and adversities among all kinds of 
men, which we partly draw on ourselves and 
which contribute to the expanding of our pa- 
tience, lowliness in heart and meekness, where- 
fore by any means I do not say that we can escape 
entirely such adversities, or that they will dis- 
continue among the pious ; but I say, that among 
them, such adversities will be very much dimin- 
ished, and hence that there our sensibilities will 
be so much refined, so that then these few adver- 
sities will aid, just as much, and even more, to 
the expanding and perfecting of our patience, 
lowliness in heart and meekness. 

11. Our modes of expression in the aforesaid 
non-animadverting to evil, are four. An inter- 
rogative, an answering, a narrative, and an im- 
perative mode ; the narrative mode of expression 
always contains a praising or a commenting, the 
imperative can only be used when we have an 
entire conviction that that w r hich we command 

• conduces to greater bliss ; for no created spirit 
can cease to grow in knowledge, although each 
one may be perfectly holy. 

1 Peter xv : But as he who hath called you is holy, so be 
ye holy in all manner of conversation. 

John i. 18 : No man hath seen God at any time; the only 
begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath 
declared him. 

1 Thes. v. 11: Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and 
edify one another, even as also ye do. 

12. We have even to fight with the just ex- 
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plained beasts of the earth, wheresoever they 
obstruct our ways to our noblest design ; and 
we have to lay hold on them, and to cast them 
into the bottomless pit of errors and insanity 
by a chain of reasoning explanations and sylo- 
gisms in the eyes of all wise people, yet w r e 
must consider that they ought to exist ; that all 
the single of the unrighteous men have their 
good peculiarities ; that we have only to defend 
our right, that is, truth and wisdom, and that we 
have to chastise the wicked merely through 
neighborly love, in order to disenthral, likewise, 
the noblest from the ties of the bad ; for behold ! 
I give unto you power to tread on serpents and 
scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, 
and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 
Luke, x, 19. 

Matt. xi. 19: The Son of man came eating and drinking, 
and they say: Behold, a man gluttonous and a wine bibber, 
a friend of publicans and sinners ; but wisdom is justified 
of her children. 

Isa. lx. 8 : Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the 
doves to their windows? 18: Violence shall no more be 
heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy bor- 
ders ; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates 
Praise, 



CHAPTER VIII. 

1. At the time when thou canst not yet be 
within the holy place, surrounded by the equally 
disposed, be thy apparel suitable to thy surround- 
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condition of our constitution, next to tins I have 
to determine upon the more perfect apparel of 
man, which accords to the most possible holy sur- 
rounding objects on earth ; but first, my kind 
reader, permit me to entreat you to consider how 
much effect the external appearance would have 
on the surrounding people. 

Job xl. 6 : Then answered the Lord unto Job. 7: Gird 
up thy loins now like a man. 10: Deck thyself now with 
majesty and excellency, and array thyself with glory and 
beauty. 

Psalms xxix. 2 : Worship the Lord in the beauty of 
holiness. 

2. The apparel w T hich accords to the interior 
of the holy man, and to his holy surrounding 
city, shall be used in this place by every one of 
its holy people, and be as follows : Let the 
clothes be not too wide, nor too tight, but so as to 
be easy and comfortable; the pantaloons ought 
to reach unto the feet ; a white shirt, with a 
moderate collar around the neck , a waistcoat 
and a garment similar to a smock-frock hanging 
down to the knees, and at the bosom a slit which 
can be closed and opened ; the collar of it low 
and straight, the sleeves and the whole frock 
middling wide; a gird around the waist* 

Daniel, x. 5 : Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and 
behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were 
girded with the finest gold. 

Rev. i. 13: And in the midst of the seven candlesticks 
one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down 
to the feet, and gird about the waist within golden girdle. 
15 : And his feet like unto fine brass. 

Rev. v. 6 : And the seven angels came out of the temple. 



Having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, 
and haying their breasts girded with golden girdles. 
Luke xii. 35 : Let your loins be girded about, 

8, The color of this apparel can be chosen 
by every one, according to what he is working, 
but at those times when he is not doing any 
soiling work, let his clothes be of a light yellow 
£olor^ his garment white like snow, and his 
girdle golden yellow. 

Rev. xix. 8 : And to her was granted that she should he 
arrayed in fine linen, clean and white ; for the fine linen is 
the righteousness of saints. 

Mat. xxviii. 3 : His countenance was like lightning, and 
his raiment white as snow* 

Luke xxiv. 4 ; And it came to pass, as they were much 
perplexed there about, behold two men stood by them in 
shining garments, 

John xx. 12 : And seeth two angels in white. 

Rer. xvi. 15: Behold I come as a thief. Blessed is he 
that watcheth. and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, 
and they see his shame. 

4. Let the hat be of an oval form, the crown 
two hands hio;h ; the color of this hat in winter 
shall be black, and in summer a light color ; this 
hat may be beautified suitably to the dresses. 

Ezek. xvi. 12 : And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and 
ear-rings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine 
head. 18: Then wast thou decked with gold and ailyer, 
and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broi- 
dered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil ; 
and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper 
into a kingdom. 14 : And thy renown went forth among 
the heathen for thy beauty; for it was perfect through my 
comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord God. 

5. The whole costume shall be used by every 
one of our people, without any regard to sex, as 
well by women as men, as it afterwards will be 
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Mat. xviii. 3 : Verily I say unto you : Except ye be con- 
verted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into 
the kingdom of heaven. 

Mark xii. 25 : For when they shall rise from the dead, 
they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as 
the angels who are in heaven. 

Isa. lxv. 20 : There shall be no more thence an infant of 
days, and an old man that hath not filled his years ; for 
the child shall die an hundred years old, but the sinner, 
being an hundred years old, shall be accursed. 

6. Let the females dress their hair in such a 
manner as not to indicate any pride or vanity, 
and as it was made to grow long by the 
Creator, undoubtedly to warm the neck, there- 
fore let it be used for that purpose. The 
males shall not shave off their beards, for, firstly, 
it is a constituent part of man; secondly, in 
many instances shaving off the beard has caused 
total blindness ; and thirdly, it is a sin against 
its Creator, (and nature.) 

1 Cor. xi. 14 ; Doth not even nature itself teach you that, 
if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him. 15; But 
if a woman have long hair, it is a glory in her, for her hair 
is given her for a covering, iii. 17 ; If any man destroy* 
the temple of God, him will God destroy ; for the temple of 
God is holy, which temple ye are. Prov. xvi. 31. 

Isa lxi. 10: I will greatly rejoice in the Lord; my soul 
shall be joyful in my God, for he hath clothed me with the 
garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of 
righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with orna- 
ments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. 
1 1 : For as the earth bringeth forth her bud, and as the 
garden causeth the things that are sown in it to spring 
forth, so the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise 
to spring forth before all the nations, lxii. 1 : For Zion's 
sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I 
will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as 

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brightness, and the sanation thereof as a lamp that burncth. 
2: And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all 
Kings thy glory ; and thou shalt be called by a new name, 
which the mouth of the Lord shall name. 

Rev. vi. 12: And the sun became black as sackcloth of 
hair, and the moon became as blood. 



CHAPTER IX. 

1. We now, my kind reader, have arrived at 
the place where we are to treat of marriage with 
respect to our city. I have already observed 
that there is only one true love, the love to God, 
as he is manifest to us in Jesus Christ— the love 
for christian amiableness, for all christian virtues, 
for lowliness in heart and meekness, the love 
glowing for all truth, and for love itself — if any 
person finds in one of the other sex certain 
christian virtues, virtues to which he has an ex- 
traordinary prepossessed love, and if at the time 
his other circumstances justify him in marrying 
her, then it certainly is the will of God that it 
be so, so that there are cases in which man, by 
disregarding the All Wise Providence of God, 
may greatly fall in sin ; such a union is from 
God, and he to whose lot it has fallen ought to 
thank God for it, for if he remains faithful to his 
Savior in it, there can be no greater happiness 
or bliss to him on earth. Such marriages are 
rare; the greater part of mankind is not so 
happily favored by their circumstances ; it is not 
just inevitable to them, but yet they are moved 



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to marry on account of various obstacles. The 
sexual instinct belongs also to its chief motives, 
the source of almost all sins, which has rooted 
itself deeply in us, for the Lord says : All they 
that take the sword, (that is the word of God, 
Mat. x. 34,) shall perish with the sword, (Mat. 
xxvi, 52 ;) that is, the flesh of him who takes and 
obeys the word of God, must perish. St. Paul 
also writes a great deal concerning it, for it 
contains the hardest requirement, the crucify- 
ing of our sinful flesh, the most difficult self 
denial ; therefore a high reward is offered to us, 
viz : many pleasing virtues, which already in this 
life spring out of chastity, and especially the 
heavenly crown of eternal life. But yet the 
Lord only requires this self denial according to 
the capacity of each individual, wherefore St. 
Paul says : It is better to marry than to burn. 
Now let us return again to that only true love, 
and consider those persons who also have become 
acquainted with persons of the other sex, to 
whose christian virtues they have a prepossessed 
love, but to whom the required means for marry- 
ing are wanting ; there are some, too, who 
almost equally love many persons of the other sex 
on account of their christian virtues ; to those, 
marrying would rather be a burden, inasmuch as 
it would interfere in the free meeting and search- 
ing of true virtues among all sorts of persons ; 
but almost all these, at last, are obliged to marry 
in order to conform to this civil world, hence in 
marrying they cannot act entirely with conform- 



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ance to that true love, but rather to convenience, 
since the Holy Scriptures decidedly declares the 
non marrying better for such a christian ; there- 
fore, we onhy need to place ourselves in such holy 
circumstances in which the unholy can no longer 
act compulsively on us. Notwithstanding all 
this, if we consider that marrying by no means 
extinguishes the wearisome sexual instinct, but 
that this leads in every respect to sin ; if we 
consider further, that the most effectual remedies 
against this instinct are prayers, and companies, 
virtuous and rich in spirit, hence it is natural 
and christianlike, that living in a married state 
should be prohibited to every one of our city 
inhabitants, otherwise our city would cease to be 
that which she ought to be. But this law is not 
to go into effect until our city is built, and our 
people organized, and neither an oath shall be 
required, nor a vow, not to marry, from any one 
of our people, however one having married can- 
not longer belong to the same, for it accords by 
no means to that transition, which must contain 
every possible opportunity to a higher degree of 
holiness ; but he is requested to join one of the 
communities of our territory, which communi- 
ties must likewise be pure, and resemble our 
own. Those that have, like angels, the heaven 
around about themselves, and dwell in it, 
cannot, living in matrimony, be as perfect as 
possible, wherefore saith John the Baptist, Luke 
iii. 8 : " For I say unto you : That God is able of 
those stones to raise up children unto Abraham/" 



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And verily, from eating and drinking, and in 
marrying and giving in marriage, originates the 
far greatest portion of sins of mankind ; as our 
Lord says : 

Mat. xxiv. 37 ; But as the days of Noah were, so shall 
also the coming of the Son of Man be. 38 : For as in the 
days that were before the flood, they were eating and 
drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day 
that Noah entered into the ark, &c. 

Luke, x. 35 : But they which shall be accounted worthy to 
obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, 
neither marry nor are given in marriage. 

Rev. xiv. 4; These are they which were not defiled with 
women, for they are virgins. These are they which follow 
the Lamb whithersoever he goeth These were redeemed 
from among men, being the first fruits unto God, and to the 
Lamb. 

1 Cor. vii. 1 ; Now concerning the things whereof ye 
wrote unto me. It is good for a man not to touch a woman. 
8 : I say, therefore, to the unmarried and. widows, it is good 
for them if they abide even as I. 28; But and if thou 
marry, thou hast not sinned; and if a virgin marrj r , she 
hath not sinned. Nevertheless, such shall have trouble in 
the flesh; but I spare you. 32; But I would have you 
without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the 
things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord. 
34 ; There is a difference also between a wife and a virgin. 
The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, 
that she may be holy both in body and in spirit ; but she 
that is married careth for the things of the world, how she 
may please her husband. 35 ; And this I speak for your 
own profit ; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for 
that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the 
Lord without destruction. 38 : So then he that giveth * in 
marriage doeth well, but he that giveth not in marriage 
doeth better. 40 : But she is happier if she so abide after 
my judgment, and I think also, that I have the Spirit of God.. 
% The mutual created predilection of the 



* She, is not said in the original. 



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male and female shall be spiritual, thus it beget3 
new endowments of true life. Therefore shall 
every one of our people who commits a sin of 
unchastity, be immediately separated from our 
people. (See Chap. 20.) But the ruling prin- 
ciple of our whole people should be an inmost 
and pure reciprocal love, in righteous self denial 
of every sensual instinct, which self denial is far 
easier among angels^ and ever renders the heart 
nobler, the spirit more alive, and the soul 
happier. 

1 Pet. i. 22 : Seeing ye have purified your souls in obey- 
ing the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the 
brethren, and that ye love one another with a pure heart 
fervently. 

John xiii. 35 : By this shall all men know that ye are nry 
disciples, if ye have love to one another. 

1 Cor. xvi. 20 : 2 Cor. xiii. 12 : Greet one another with 
an holy kiss. 

1 Thes. v. 26 : Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss. 
Col. iv. 18 : The salutation by the hand of me Paul. 

3. When men live together according to the 
doctrine of JesTis, not animadverting to sin, man 
aproximates an angel, so that he may be called 
a member of an angel, (Rev. 2,) and of Christ; 
his feelings against every thing of sin are per- 
fected, and his conscience has become so refined 
that God can freely operate through it, thus 
Jesus Christ will make our imperfection perfect, 
and dwell with us, and walk among us, without 
becoming defiled in his holiness, and thus suc- 
coring us, he will transform and rule his people 
on earth as in heaven. 

Isa. lui. 19: And they shall call them : The holy people ; 



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The redeemed of the Lord; and thou shalt be called: 
Sought out, a city not forsaken, lxv. 18: But be ye glad 
and rejoice forever in that which I create ; for behold, I 
create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 19 : 
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and 
the voice of weeping shall be heard no more in her, nor the 
voice of crying. 

Ezek. xxxvi. 26 : A new heart also will I give you, and a 
new spirit will I put within you, and I will take away the 
stonj T heart of out your flesh, and I will give you an heart of 
flesh. 27 : And I will put my spirit within you, and cause 
you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments 
and do them. 32 : Not for your sakes do I this, saith the 
Lord God, be it known unto you ; be ashamed and con- 
founded for your own ways, house of Israel. 33 : Thus 
saith the Lord God ; in the day that I shall have cleansed 
you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in 
the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. 

4. Thereby Jesus Christ will rule our people 
externally through the following four manners : 
First, through every person in it, through his 
watchfulness for the maintenance of the holiness 
of our State, and by counselling on its proposi- 
tions with the respective officers. Second, 
through the office of w T ardens, who shall execute 
the will and arrangements of the people in their 
name, and for the accomplishment of these they 
must have a decided power. Third, through the 
office of teachers in all true arts and sciences; 
and Fourth, through the office of treasures. 

Zach. vi. 5 : And the angel answered and said unto me r 
These are the four winds of the heaven, which go forth from 
standing before the Lord of all the earth. 

Ezek. i. 15: Now as I behold the living creatures, behold 
one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures with his 
four faces. 20 : Whithersoever the wind was to go they 
went, thither was their wind to go, and the wheels were lifted 
up over against them, for a living wind was in the wheels. 



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CHAPTER X. 

1. To the first office, the people's watchful- 
ness belongs the office of the twenty-four elders, 
who cannot be elected by the people, for they 
shall be its elders, whose age must be reckoned 
from the day of their entering among our people. 
The wardens and treasurers are to be elected by 
the majority of its citizens, and every person 
who is elected shall be a citizen of our people. 

2. Whenever wardens are to be elected, the 
respective male persons shall elect their male 
Wardens, and likewise the female persons shall 
elect their female wardens, and thus the two 
kinds of wardens will the more wisely carry out 
all the arrangements. 

3. Wardens who are thoroughly acquainted 
w r ith the whole regulation, and the single insti- 
tutes of our people, shall be appointed, w T ho also 
shall do their utmost to keep all in the best order 
without any power ruling but that of the truth, 
their good councils and propositions, so that the 
truth may rule us directly. These wardens must 
likewise instruct our new members in its general 
regulations, lest these regulations sliGuld be 
violated by them. 

4. The same wardens shall stand in a becom- 
ing familiarity with the members, for the purpose 
of achieving the best harmony in its arrange- 
ments and alterations; and they shall inform 
those in different employments or occupations 



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five weeks previous to the expiration of their 
appointed time ; and about the same time notify 
those who are to take their places. 

Every warden shall hold his office or occupa- 
tion four years, and then shall be succeeded by- 
him who is elected for the same place, unless the 
office is abolished. Each warden shall hold his 
office only one term, then he shall not be elected 
for the same occupation any more, because the 
frequency of such changes improves their minds, 
increases their activity, and gives general satis- 
faction. 

6. Every year shall the fourth part of all the 
male wardens, and the fourth part of all the 
female wardens, give up their places to those 
newly elected, if the place continue to exist. 
But, in order to prevent partiality of the voters, 
each party which votes for one warden's place, 
shall, in every one of these elections, divide itself 
into two equal parts, and every one of these 
parts shall, for the next election form a voter 
party in company with such another half part 
of the next situated voter party, and the next 
after this every voter party shall divide itself in 
such a way into two parts, so that every person 
of it in the shortest time possible shall be a 
member of the different voter parties of his city 
division's building row in which he is dwelling. 

7. All these rules are the same for the female 
elections as well as for the male elections ; and 
also preferences in names of persons cannot be 
allowed among the members of our people, and 



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therefore no one shall be styled by a title. 
When any persons can be dressed more in the 
holier apparel than others, then it shall not be 
regarded as a preference, for the only reason of it 
is they have less soiling business. And every 
one of our people shall call our holy city whilst 
he is within her: The Lord is there, (Ezek. xlviii, 
35,) Jehova schammah — der Kerr ist da. 



CHAPTER XI. 

1. As soon as practicable among our people 
some shall be appointed as teachers in our city, 
who are able and competent to instruct them in 
. all arts and sciences, of which such parts must 
be omitted as do not accord to the non-animad- 
verting of untruth and evil, hence we must ignore 
the science of municipal law within our state, not 
on account of any disestimation of jurisprudence, 
because here is fulfilled that principle : touch not 
the unclean — and here is only one chief and one 
holy law, viz : that, to non-animadvert to bad; 
for the disregarding of guilt is the more power- 
ful restrainer of guilt. Only real truths shall be 
taught and learned, which show us the Creator 
and the creation, and therein our life, our way, 
Jesus Christ. 



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John xiv. G : Jesus saith unto him : I am the way, and the 
truth, and the life : no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 

Horn. vii. 5: For when we were in the flesh, the motives 
of sin which were by the law, did work in our members to 
bring forth fruit unto death. 6 : But now we are delivered 
from the law that being dead wherein w r e were held ; that 
we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness 
of the latter. But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, 
wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without 
the law sin was dead. For I was alive without the law once ; 
but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died, 
x. 4 ; For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to 
every one that believeth. 

2. The teachers shall always consider it a sa- 
cred duty of gracefulness and obedience to their 
Lord, to convey and incubate the arts and scien- 
ces in such a manner as to confirm the truths of the 
bible, and especially to acknowledge Jesus Christ; 
wherever the arts or sciences are illustrative of 
any points in the Holy Scriptures, it ought to be 
remarked to the people, and commented on by 
the teacher. 

Ps. lxxxix. 5 : And the heavens shall praise thy wonder?, 
Lord. Thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the 
saints, xevi, 3 :. Declare his glory among the heathen, his 
wonders among aU people, xcvii. 6: The,, heavens , 4ecla.Ee 
his righteousness, and all the people see his glory. , 

Luke xvii. 21 : Behold, the kingdom of God is within' you. 

3. The teachers of our people shall so manage 
among themselves, that every one may have 
sufficient time to learn completely his bratifcli, 
which he has to teach, and the best regulati^fa 
is that the teachers change > so that every 
every two years may instruct in another birarifch 
of his science or art. Every teacher, whM'Irfe 
has attended his office , six years suticSess&l, 



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then he shall have every seventh year free given 
to his own use, on condition, that he will prepare 
himself to be teacher again the next coming year. 

Zecliar. xiv. 8 : And it shall be in that day, that living 
waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward 
the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea. 

4. Female teachers may be placed as well as 
male teachers, for every art and science ; and 
every person of our people shall at any time of 
the year have opportunity to learn any art or 
science that may please him, and the female 
persons of our people shall, as well as its male 
persons, learn and study ; for the expansion of 
our spirit in pure truth is the way to an eternal 
happy life. The study must be without external 
compulsion. 

5. As near as possible every person of our 
people shall obtain an equal length of time to 
learn or study, except those who have offices, 
which do not permit them so much leisure time. 
The literature of our people shall be imparted to 
every one of them, and afterwards all those 
writings shall be found in the great collection 
building on the market place, well regulated, 
where they can be read. 

6. Any person of our people who desires to 
publish any work of art or of literature, shall, to 
the respective college of teachers, manifest his 
desire, and, according to the value of the desire 
or of his talents, shall that college be pre- 
sumed to give sufficient time to the desirer to 
write this work. That person of our people who 



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i publishes some work of 'art or science, and gets 
their approbation, shall be exonerated from other 
labor and offices, and from informing any college 
about his works, and he shall be working as the 
people's artist or publisher, as long as he will 
please them. 

7. Every person of our people has liberty to 
correspond w 7 ith foreigners, and may let shine 
his light before man in such ways as he can best 
do it ; therefore, our little state must keep an un- 
limited commerce with the whole world, but no 
one of our people can leave our city to travel and 
remain a citizen, unless commissioned to do so. 



CHAPTER XII. 

1. The first office, that of watchfulness, to 
which every person of our people is obliged, shall 
be official by the office of its elders. And so the 
four and twenty female elders, and the four and 
twenty male elders of our people shall be bound 
to the following : 

2. Incessantly shall be in this office twelve 
female and twelve male elders, and they shall 
dwell over the twelve doors of our city, and have 
the pow T er to open and shut according to their 



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judgment, those doors over which they dwell, 
and the corresponding next doors of the circle- 
wall ; and the holiness of not seeing the bad does 
not permit any individual to ask the reason of 
their open actions; but twelve persons of our 
people together can ask it, then the asked elder 
is obliged to declare the reason of it. And when- 
ever there is consiberable doubt in any thing con- 
cerning our whole people, the majority shall be 
decisive. Our elders in office have to take the 
chief head of our holy state. 

3. So they shall examine the new T comers, 
and decide whether they can be received as 
citizens among our people ; and therefore every 
one who wishes to become a member, has first to 

* present himself to the elders at the doors. These 
then have to enrol the name of every one who is 
received, leaving out every signification of pre- 
ference. All the eight and forty elders shall 
communicate with our people by a weekly publi- 
cation. 

4. Over every one of the twelve doors of our 
city wall shall dwell one female elder and one 
male elder beside each other , and the four and 
twenty female elders, and the four and twenty 
male elders, shall change the office and the places 
among themselves ; so that every elder attend 
six years continually in his office, and that the 
elders of both sexes at all the doors of the city wall 
interchange their places every three years ; and 
this in such manner, that after three years twelve 
other male elders be installed in their offices, 



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and three years after this twelve other female 
elders. 

5. Every elder shall throughout the six years 
remain installed at the same door, then he shall 
get a quiet little employment in the great collec- 
tion building in the midst of the market place ; six 
years after that he shall again receive the office 
of elder. At the next door, which, when viewed 
from the centre of the city, is to the right of that, 
at which he had been placed twelve years ago. 
Exceptions to this rule can be found. 



CHAPTER XIII. 

1. The fourth office through which is managed 
the government of our people, shall be that of 
the treasurer ; this office shall administer the 
treasures of our people, its incomes and expenses, 
and shall attend to the distribution and supplying 
of every member ; they shall keep the principal 
administration of the accounts, of all the money 
of our people, and be also bound to whatsoever 
is assigned to their department. x 

2. The inhabitants of every city division shall 
elect two treasurers of their own division, one 
female shall be elected by the female, and one 



male by the male inhabitants. These choices 
shall be made according to the following regula- 
tion : our city is divided in four equal city 
quarters, and every city quarter in seven divisions, 
which I name according to the seven first chris- 
tian communities, to which John wrote the revel- 
ation. The city quarter of the north-east shall 
elect the treasurers for the city quarter of the 
southwest, so that Ephesus. elects for Ephesus, 
Smyrna for Smyrna, Pergamus for Pergamu3, 
Thyatira for Thyatira, Sarden for Sarden, Phila- 
delphia for Philadelphia, and Laodicea for Lao- 
dicea ; in the same order and at the same time 
the city quarter of the north-west shall eleet the 
treasurers for that of the south-east. One and 
an half year after this the city quarter of the 
south-east shall in the same order elect the trea- 
surers for that of the north-west, and at the 
same time that of the south-west shall elect the 
treasurers for that of the north-east. 

3. One and a half year after this the city 
quarter of the north-east shall elect the treasurers 
for that of the south-east, and that of the north- 
west for that of the south-west ; and one and a 
half year after this shall the city quarter of the 
south-east elect the treasurers for that of the 
north-east, and that of the south-west for that of 
the north-west. One and a half year after this 
the city quarter of the south-east shall elect the 
treasurers for that of the south-west, and that of 
the north-east for that of the north-west ; and 
one and a half year after this shall the city 



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quarter of the south-west elect the treasurers for 
that of south-east, and that of the north-west for 
that of the north-east. One. and a half year 
after this shall recommence the election in the 
same order. Every treasurer shall therefore hold 
his office during the time, which is fixed by the 
election, and after he has been out of office, three 
years or longer, he can be elected again as trea- 
surer, but then no more. 

4. These treasurers shall likewise attend to the 
general administration of the whole commerce of 
our people, and accurately determine for it the 
prices of all the w^ares by consulting persons com- 
petent to judge, and they shajl establish those 
prices from time to time, and make them known 
to our people, and thus keep the strictest right- 
eousness in their commerce. 

5. Neither our whole State, nor any single 
person of it, is permitted to contract debts with 
one or many persons who do not belong to our 
people, unless previous to the perfect formation 
of our city. 

6. The amount of business of our treasurers 
and its importance, require assistants, whom 
they themselves shall choose out of our people, 
the females only female, and the males only 
male assistants, as many females as males. The 
people of that city division for which the res- 
pective treasurers are elected, have to approve 
the number of their assistants. Every one of 
these assistants shall serve only one term, that is 



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three consecutive years, unless the people elect 
him during that same time to some other office. 

7. The magazines of our people for the wares 
which they make to sell to foreigners, and for 
such merchandise which they have bought from 
foreigners, to be built in the four corners of our 
city. And any one who wants refreshments can 
have them for money at all times in every dining 
room ; but no foreigner shall get them without 
he shows his card of admission. And when for- 
eigners do not demean themselves according to 
our pure single way, then they cannot be recog- 
nised any more in our holy place, they must flee 
from there if they will not die by hunger ; five of 
our citizens are Empowered to take away from 
them the card of admission. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

1. All the products of our people which are 
intended for sale to foreigners, shall be collected 
by wardens, who shall deliver them to the trea- 
surers. Every merchant of our people shall at 
certain times deliver the money which he has 
received, together with the list of the sold ware, 
to the respective warden ; for by wardens shall 



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be settled and collected all those incomes, and 
delivered to the treasurers. 

2. All the money of our people shall be used 
in the following ways : Every half year each 
person shall receive a certain sum of money out 
of the office of the treasurers of his city division, 
to enable him to pay for that which he may 
want in the next half year ; this sum shall be 
the same for every person of our people, and 
shall amount to as much as he can live on com- 
fortably in our city. 

3. The amount of the salary for the persons 
of our people shall always be regulated according 
to our capital. The treasurers shall fix this sum 
first publicly, justifying themselves to our people, 
but this division can be friendly opposed by dif- 
ferent opinions of the respective persons, and 
when it is opposed by the majority of the people, 
then shall the four and twenty elders interpose 
and satisfy the majority. 

4. No one of our people shall accumulate 
money by disturbing the enriching of our State, 
he is permitted to use his salary for extraordi- 
nary expenses as he pleases, but every three 
years each person shall give up the remainder 
of his money to the respective treasurers. 

1 Tim. vi. 6 : But godliness with contentment is great 
gain. 7 : For we brought nothing into this world, and it is 
certain we can carry nothing out. 8: And having food 
and raiment, let us be therewith content. 

5. To provide for cases of necessity, it is 
also necessary that a part of our people's capital 
be reserved in cash, equal parts of it deposited 



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in the four and twenty treasuries that are not 
used in trading with foreigners. The treasurers, 
in company with the elders, can define better 
the quota of this sum, therefore only two thirds 
of the people may increase or diminish it. 

6. The one third part of our people's money 
must be appropriated to its general expenses, 
viz : Common wwks, institutes, mechanics, man- 
ufactories, factories, etc. ; also, to perfect our 
city and garden, to procure minerals and plants, 
and such animals as enliven, in an agreeable 
manner our surrounding nature and garden, 
and because St. John, Rev. xxii. 15, says, without 
are dogs, etc., and as they could be of no service 
in our holy city, but a nuisance, and sometimes 
even injurious, therefore no dogs shall be kept 
in our city, except in our country district, and 
there only little ones. With this money, instru- 
ments and books shall be provided for the 
teachers, and it shall be ever plentifully expended 
for musical instruments, necessary books, etc., 
and for the enriching of our great collection 
building. 

Levit. xxvi. 6: And I will give peace in the land, and ye 
shaU be down, and none shall make you afraid ; and I will 
rid evil beasts out of the land, neither shall the sword go 
through your land. * 



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CHAPTER XV. 

1. On every side of every city division within 
the city, shall be three stores, except on the 
sides of the market place ; and the stores on the 
sides within the city wall shall be so arranged 
that there be one where the wall bounds Perga- 
mus, and one where it bounds Smyrna, and one 
where the city wall on the other side bounds 
Pergamus, and one where it bounds Philadelphia. 
And in every quarter of the great collection 
building shall be ten stores. 

2. For every one of these stores shall be 
placed one person as the administrative mer- 
chant; that is eighty for every city quarter; 
the half of these shall be female, and the other 
half male persons. And to attend the direct 
commerce with foreigners, there shall be placed 
at every one of the four ware magazines in Per- 
gamus ten persons, the half female and the other 
half male persons. These are in all ninety 
merchants for every city quarter. 

3. The installation of the merchants at the 
stores shall be arranged so that throughout the 
whole length of every principal street, and on 
every city's division side, the one store be at- 
tended by a male, the next store by a female, 
the one following next by a male, the next after 
this again by a female person, etc. Every one 
of these merchants shall serve three years in 
this employment; every store shall be kept 



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during three years by a female, then three years 
by a male, then by a female person again, etc. 

4. He, who of these merchants needs one 
or more assistants, shall inform his respective 
warden, and this one shall examine the expedi- 
ency of his request with his next respective 
warden, and if both find it necessary, then he 
shall get the assistance ; however, no longer 
than necessary, which in doubtful cases must be 
determined by the same two wardens, in council 
with the two next respective wardens of the 
other neighbor side. Also, the merchants them- 
selves shall choose their assistants, like all others 
to whom assistants are granted, and they shall 
also serve three years ; but in all elections males 
shall choose male, and females only female 
assistants. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

1. Three hundred and sixty persons of our 
people shall be placed as city attendants ; 
ninety for every city quarter : and for its garden 
the same number of persons shall be placed of 
our people as gardeners, ninety for every garden 
quarter. Every city attendant, and every gar- 



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dener shall serve six consecutive years in the 
same station. The third part of the merchants, 
the same number of males and females, shall 
give up every year their places to the sixth part 
of the city attendants, and to the sixth part of 
the gardeners ; and the one half of these mer- 
chants having gone out of their former occupa- 
tion, shall become gardeners, and the other half 
city attendants. 

2. Also, the sixth part of the gardeners, and 
the sixth part of the city attendants, shall every 
year become merchants, always as many male 
as female persons ; this personal exchange shall 
be so that every one of these merchants, garden- 
ers and city attendants, in the course of fifteen 
years, be once city attendant, once gardener, and 
once merchant. Persons who have passed these 
services, shall have the preference to easier places. 

3. Forty-eight persons of our people shall be 
placed at the doors of the city wall with the 
elders ; at every door two persons as herald, one 
male and one female, to transact the business of 
both the elders. Besides them, shall be placed 
at every one of these doors two door-heeders, 
one female and one male person, who dwell ad- 
joining to the door, and have to achieve the 
orders of the two elders who dwell over the 
same^door. Every herald and door-heeder shall 
be in office during five years, then a herald is per- 
mitted to become door-heeder, and a door-heeder 
to become herald, but this change can take place 
only once. 



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4. No person of our people appointed for any 
peculiar employment is compelled to comply 
with that appointment, but he is permitted to 
transfer it to another person of his sex, who is 
approved of, and pronounced capable of the 
place by two respective wardens ; yet this accep- 
tation must be rejectable by six other persons of 
the same employment. If any person elected 
by the people wishes to give his employment to 
any other person, he must obtain permission 
from the same party that chose him. No elder 
can ever give up his office, but he is permitted to 
take v an assistant of his own sex, if the other 
elders agree to it. 



CHAPTER XVII. 

!L A third part of the gardeners shall attend 
to the selling of garden products, so that every 
gardener during the six years of his service 
attends two years to this commerce, and from 
every garden quarter thirty gardeners shall bring 
the products to the market every morning, except 
Sabbath and festival days, so that through every 
gate of the city wall shall pass five male and 
five female gardeners, and they all shall have 



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their stands so as to form a square, of which 
each side shall contain thirty, and the whole 
square an hundred and twenty gardeners. 

2. After this, these gardeners shall retire 
from the market by ten, five males and five 
females, each ten passing again their respective 
city wall gate, at which place they shall deliver 
their money received at the market to the gate- 
heeders, the five female gardeners to the male 
gate-heeder, and the five male gardeners to the 
female gate-heeder ; for it is the best that all 
accounts of our public money should be made 
both by a male and by a female person. This 
money received at market shall the gate-heeders 
deliver every week in the same manner to the 
treasurers of the city divisions, except those 
city divisions of the four corners of the city 
where the trade is with foreigners, and thus the 
treasurers themselves of the two city divisions 
must come to collect this money from the heeders 
of the respective gates. 

3. And another third of the gardeners, with 
their last third, shall exchange monthly sleep- 
ing in the three gate buildings of the circle 
wall, five female and five male persons; and 
at every one of these gates of the circle wall, 
shall be always watching two strong and armed 
male persons of our people as sentinels, achiev- 
ing beside their watch, the orders of those elders 
who dwell over the city wall gates of the same 
radius street. These sentinels are permitted to 
use their remaining time in literary pursuits, for 



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there they are proper, lest evil disposed persons - 
should enter like the beasts of the earth. 

Rev. xx. 9: And compassed the camp of the saints about, 
and the beloved city. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

1. One-third part of the city attendants shall 
every work-day attend to the circulating of 
writings, so that every one of them, during his 
six years of service, shall serve two years in the 
following wise : fifteen female and fifteen male 
city attendants in every city quarter, shall every 
forenoon bring into the dining-hall of our people 
all those writings, which are offered to every one 
of them to read, especially those books or writings 
which were lately published. 

2. On the next day when the same city atten- 
dants bring again the literary products, then 
they shall take back those that they brought 
on the day previous, and which no longer can 
remain offered for sale, and they shall then like- 
wise receive from the hall-master the money 
according to the bill of the sold copies, and deliver 
it to the merchants who keep the negotiations 



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with foreigners ; but what is bought for our 
people's library, together with those writings 
which belong to it, and have passed the circula- 
tion of its readers, they shall properly deliver to 
our library in the great collection-building on the 
market place. 

3. The twenty and four elders who are not 
in office, shall be employed in this great building 
to keep its general administration, but subjected 
to the orders given by the body of the teachers; 
and to prevent disproportion in the appointment 
of male and female persons, there shall be ap- 
pointed, together with the twenty-four sentinels, 
twenty-four female persons as house-keepers, to 
keep the great collection building on the market 
place clean and proper. 

4. The second third of the city attendants 
shall exchange monthly with the third third to 
watch the city, both by day and night, suitably 
and well armed at the gate buildings of the city 
wall, and of conveniently situated gate buildings 
of the building rows of the city divisions; some of 
these watchmen shall be stationed on the buildings 
to watch, whilst others are watching on the street; 
thirty in every city quarter who may pass there 
the nights by hymns and music to praise the Lord. 

Isa. lxii. 6 : I have set watchmen upon thy walls, Jeru- 
salem, which shall never be silent day nor night. 7 : And 
give him no rest till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem 
a praise in the earth ; (hold their peace is not a right trans- 
lation in Heb. Jegeshu.) 

Rev. vii. 4 : And I heard the number of them which were 
sealed, and there were sealed an hundred and forty and 
four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel. 



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5. The holy city is calculated for an hundred 
and forty four thousand inhabitants, because she 
accords perfectly to the biblical faith, through 
which alone she can exist. And those who have the 
finest and purest sentiments against the bad 
things must have the best taste and inclination 
for arts and knowledge; therefore our holy city 
must certainly become a gathering place of the 
best mechanics, craftsmen, artists, doctors, poets 
and musicians, &c. Jesus Christ talks with his 
bride, and she talks with him in humility before 
God, kneeling and folding the hands, locked up 
in the room, and in our sanctified temple of God, 
our body, whose spirit does not touch unclean 
things any more, and in our surrounding nature, 
which arranged by his children, and thus in the 
holiest spirit of the universe. 

Matt. vi. 6 : But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy 
closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy 
Father who is in secret. 

John ii. 19 : Jesus answered and said unto them: Destroy 
this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 21 : But 
he spake of the temple of his body. 

Rev. xxi. 22 : And I saw no temple therein ; for the Lord 
God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. xviii. 22 : 
And the voice of harpers and musicians, and of pipers, &c. 
23 : And the light of a candle shall shine. 



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CHAPTER XIX. 

1. In our state no particular language shall 
be the language of the state, the public declara- 
tions shall be made in as many languages as it 
is necessary to make them known to every per- 
son of our people, who may nevertheless learn 
the languages which are most used among them- 
selves. 

2. Our little state shall be free and indepen- 
dent, not subjected to the power of any single 
person on earth: however, no righteous govern- 
ment can have any cause of complaint against it ; 
and its holiness requires a political separation as 
much as possible. 

Gal. yi. 10: As we have therefore opportunity, let us do 
good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the 
household of faith. 

3. No persons shall be permitted in our little 
state to deal with foreigners, except persons ap- 
pointed for that purpose ; and the food which 
they need within the city, they have to pay and 
to get in any dining-hall of our people, or in its 
hotels. Our installed merchants, who deal with 
foreigners, shall take care not to let any foreign 
merchandise go away from our people which 
could be of any use to them. 

4. The persons of our people will not wish to 
drink any stronger beverage than beer or wine, 
and only by being moderate in using wine, we 
do it then with Jesus ; but there shall no person 



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fetter his free will by vows, because his will be- 
longs to God. We are permitted by our creator 
to use, according to our best judgment, the pro- 
ducts of the earth, therefore the use of tobacco 
cannot be forbidden; the person alone, who uses 
it, is responsible to God for the preservation of 
his health. 

5. Our elders have to observe the strictest 
care in permitting to foreigners ingress and egress; 
and whenever foreigners in our city do not 
demean themselves, then must such individuals 
by any persons, but better by city attendants or 
wardens, be brought back to the hotel which is 
named on their card of admission, from where 
they shall be instantly despatched to leave our 
state as soon as possible; but should any one 
oppose or resist our officers in the discharge of 
their duty, during this opposition and resistance, 
this one and all such compel us to treat them as 
wild beasts. 

1 Pet. v. 8 : Be sober, be vigilant ; because your adver- 
sary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking 
"whom he may devour. 

Isa. Ix. 18 : Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, 
wasting nor destruction within thy borders ; but thou shalt 
call thy walls salvation, and thy gates praise, &c. lxii. 5 : 
For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons 
marry thee ; and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, 
so shall thy God rejoice over thee. 

Rev. xxi. 24 : And the nations of them which are saved, 
shall walk in the light of it. 



DESCRIPTION 

OF THE PROMISED 

HOLY CITY OF THE NEW JERUSALEM, 

And continuation of the constitution of her 
inhabitants. 



CHAPTER XX. 



Isa. lxii. 3 : Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the 
hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy 
God. 

Rev, vii. 2 : And T saw another angel ascending from the 
east, having the seal of the living God, &c. 

1. Let the holy city be formed like a seal for 
the sealed, and like a crown for the vanquishers, 
like a real temple of God, built according to the 
high image of his creation ; and like an ark of 
the testament saving its holy children from 
destruction. She is for the redeemed, therefore 
let her frontier-wall be like a crown of thorns, 
and the internal frontier of her four quarters a 
cross with green wood. 

Luke xxiii. 31 : For if they do these things in a green tree, 
what shall be done in the dry ? 

Rev. xi. 19 : And the temple of God was opened in heaven, 
and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament, &c. 

2. There are four different characters of men, 



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every one of these characters is to be vanquished, 
the malignant by self-denials; according to these 
characters shall be designated the four city quar- 
ters together with its garden quarter. There 
were four principal epochs wherein spiritual 
keystones gave, according to the age, the true 
spiritual direction to the people of the Lord ; 
as symbols to that, let our city be quadrangular. 
The people of the Lord were first raised by the 
twelve tribes of Israel, let this be designated by 
the twelve gates of our circle wall, which shall 
also be called by their respective names. After 
this was opened the word of God unto the world 
by the twelve Apostles, so shall our city wall 
have three gates in every quarter of the heavens, 
named after these apostles. 

Rev. xxi. 12: And had a wall great and high, and had 
twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names 
written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of 
the children of Israel, xiii : On the east three gates, on the 
north three gates, on the south three gates, on the west 
three gates. xiv : And the wall of the city had twelve 
foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles 
of the Lamb. 

3. Since the inhabitants of this city were 
sustained by the seven angels of the first seven 
communities, and designated by the seven star- 
forms which form seven divisions in every city 
quarter, therefore these seven city divisions shall 
be called by the names of the seven first com- 
munities. 

4. Our internal spiritual most possible per- 
fection shall be expressed within this place; 
therefore, as near as possible, shall be collected I 



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and placed the riches of the inorganic wealth in 
the city, and the riches of the organic wealth in 
its garden. In accordance with this all the prin- 
cipal streets shall be paved, each with paving stone 
whose color is different from the others, so that 
their combined colors may show the colors of the 
rainbow indicating the reconciliation in the holy 
life. And every one of these streets shall be 
called after the noblest stone of the street's 
color. 

Rev. x. 1 : And I saw another mighty angel come down 
from heaven, clothed with a cloud : and a rainbow was upon 
his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet 
as pillars of fire. 

5. All the buildings of our city shall have an 
equal hight, for the real temple of her inhabitants 
is every thing that is true, viz., the whole nature, 
within it we all wish to be equal. But the great- 
ness of the city has arisen from the twelve tribes 
of Israel, and from the twelve characters of faith 
according to the twelve apostles; thus it is 
ordained for a hundred and forty-four thousand. 

Gal. iii. 7 : Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, 
the same are the children of Abraham, xxix : And if ye be 
Christ's then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to 
the promise. 

Luke xxii. 30 : Judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 

6. Just as well as the measure of magnitude 
of the promised city must accord to the number 
of her inhabitants, just so must also medium size 
of any one of that people be the best measure to 
define her particular dimensions, the medium of 
man's height is sixty-seven and a half English 
inches ; this length is now a real appropriated 



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measure, which I divide in twelve equal parts, 
according to that twelve-fold origin, and any one 
of these twelve lengths, I call a cubit. 

Rev. xxi. 17 : And he measured the wall thereof, an hun* 
dred and forty and four cubits, according to the measure of 
a man, that is of the angel. 



CHAPTER XXI. 

1. On an extended plain, through which flows 
a clear river from forty to eighty cubits wide, 
let a cross by two straight lines be drawn, and 
exactly from east to west, the other from south 
to north, the river must be such that its course 
can easily be directed along one of these two 
lines. 

Rom. ix. 26 : And it shall come to pass, that in the place 
where it was said unto them : ye are not my people ; there 
shall they be called, the children of the living God. 

2. Let every one of these two straight lines 
be seventy and two thousand cubits long, and 
from the point of cutting through to its end 
thirty-six thousand cubits ; this half part is the 
radius of a circle of which the centre is where 
the lines cross each other, and these lines exactly 
form two diameters of the circle, which divide it 
into four equal parts ; this circle shall be the 
internal limit of a great frontier wall, which wall 
shall be four and twenty cubits broad and one 
hundred and eight cubits high. This great circle 
wall borders the garden of our city; therefore let 
it be called garden wall. 



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3. Every one of the four radia is bissected at 
right angles by a straight line, thus forming a 
square, of which each side is thirty-six thousand 
cubits long ; this square shall be the internal 
limit of a great wall, which shall be twelve cubits 
broad, and a hundred and eight cubits high, and 
be called city wall, this city wall shall be like- 
wise the outside of four building rows, joined 
together by large corner stones, w T hich on the 
outside shall have a row of windows eighty-four 
cubits in altitude. 

4. Each of the two mentioned cross-lines, 
shall pass through the middle of the breadth of 
a principal street, the river shall be conducted 
through the middle of one of them, which I now 
call river street, to distinguish it from the other 
cross street, and there shall be gates at those 
places, where they cut through the city wall, and 
also there where they touch the garden wall, and 
there shall be gates in the city wall exactly on 
these eight middles, between those four points, 
where they cut through the city wall, and its 
four corners, these eight gates I here call side 
gates of the city wall. 

5. From the point of intersection of the two 
cross lines, shall be drawn radia exactly through 
these points where the side gates of the city wall 
are, to the garden wall, and where they touch it 
shall be the other eight gates of the garden wall, 
and each of these eight radia lines shall pass 
through the middle of a principal street, which I 
here call radius street. The two points where are to 



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be the two side gates of the city wall of a city 
quarter, shall be joined in every city quarter to 
a straight line, which shall pass through the 
middle of a principal street, which shall be ex- 
tended unto those four streets, that form a square, 
these f^ur principal streets I here call gate 
streets. 

6. From the middle of every one of those 
gates of the city wall, which gates are on the 
cross streets, shall be drawn a straight line to 
the next gates, and then every end of these four 
lines shall be extended directly to the garden 
wall, and every one of these secants shall pass 
through the middle of a principal street, which I - 
call star street. All the heretofore described 
principal streets unto the city wall from four 
stars, and unto the garden wall three stars, and 
one cross ; these divide the city into four quarters, 
each of these city quarters is parted in seven 
divisions, which are formed by the seven star 
forms. 

Rev. i. 19 : Write the things which thou hast seen, and 
the things whieh are, and the things which shall be here- 
after. 20. The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest 
in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks : The 
seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the 
seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. 



CHAPTER XXII. 

I. Every river and cross street shall be two 
hundred and eighty-eight cubits broad, and every 



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one of the other principal streets shall be one 
hundred and forty-four cubits broad. The gates 
of the garden wall and the gates of the city wall 
shall be equally wide, and similarly formed cir- 
cularly arched above, so that the line let fall 
perpendicularly to the street from the highest 
part of the arch be forty eight cubits, and from 
the lowest part of the arch to the level street 
eighteen cubits, the breadth of the aperture of 
the gate forty eight cubits. 

2. A secant shall be drawn before every gate 
of the garden wall, whose farthest distance from 
the periphery is exactly at the middle of the 
gate aperture, and measures a hundred and eight 
cubits; this secant shall be the external limit of 
a wall, which is joined at both its ends with the 
garden wall, and with which it has equal height ; 
on the interstice shall be built dwellings for 
gardeners and for sentinels, with sufficient 
space for stables, wagons and garden instru- 
ments. In these secant-walls shall be win- 
dows towards the garden, and the apertures of 
its gates shall be in a straight direction from the 
middle of the city through her periphery. 

3. All the four building-rows of the citj wall 
shall have, both in breadth and height, one hun- 
dred and eight cubits, without the roof, and the 
apertures of its gates shall have the same breadth 
throughout the whole distance of its shortest 
line, not according to the direction of the radius, 
although radius streets must continue, in a 
straight direction on the garden side of the city 
wall, in the aforesaid breadth. 



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4. Every city division shall be bordered with 
adjoined building rows, one hundred and eight 
cubits high, and one hundred and eight cubits 
broad, which building row also have their rows of 
windows on the outside. Also in these building 
rows shall be three gates on each side of every 
city division, but only one gate shall be on every 
one of its sides that borders the market place; all 
these gates shall have the same size as the city 
wall gates; however there shall be little doors, 
conducting through these building rows, arranged 
in regular order. 

5. On every radius line of the cross streets, 
a distance of one thousand cubits shall be mea- 
sured from the centre of the city towards her 
periphery; through these four points lines shall 
be drawn at right angles, forming a square, which 
shall be our market place. On each of the 
twelve radius lines, w^hich describe principal 
streets, shall be from the centre of the city 
towards the periphery, three hundred cubits, and 
there shall be drawn from every one of these 
points to the other a straight line, which regular 
dodecagon shall be the external limit of a great 
building, w r hose height is one hundred and eight 
cubits. 

6. Where the river flows through this building, 
on it and at its two sides shall be the mills for 
our people which are not to be worked by soiling 
matters, for it is not permitted to diffuse any 
vapour in the atmosphere of our city which soils. 
On the xoof of this dodecagonal building shall 



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the twelve mentioned radius lines be the twelve 
middles of walking paths, of which every one 
shall be twelve cubits broad ; and between these 
the roofs shall regularly rise to six cubits high 
— this shall be covered with strong and wide 
transparent plates, so that the whole inside of 
this great building shall be very brilliant. 

7. And round along the border of this roof, 
shall be a roof-path, twelve cubits broad, along 
whose external edge shall be a strong iron bal- 
ustrade, which is well fastened and gilded, and 
nine cubits high; and in the middle of every 
one of these roof-paths shall be a gutter, which 
leads all the water falling upon this building into 
the river ; this water can also be preserved for 
use. 

8. This building shall be inside as beautiful 
and bright as possible, and arranged with entire 
conformance to its purpose, like a little world, 
the principal gathering place of all collections 
of earthly nature, together with all the true arts 
and sciences of man ; as it were containing the 
clear source of truth and knowledge, through 
which God makes himself known to us, with him 
Jesus Christ, our salvation, the way and life. 

Rev. : And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, 
clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and 
of the Lamb. 



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CHAPTER XXIII. 

1. Every river and cross street shall have on 
its two sides a paved foot-path along the border- 
ing building row, .which is thirty and six cubits 
broad, and shall incline downward at the thirtieth 
cubit, forming a gutter or kennel ; and along the 
line of the thirty-sixth cubit be a regular row 
of the most productive and salutary trees, which 
is to continue in a straight direction through the 
garden; and from that line forty-eight cubits 
further to the middle of the street, shall be an- 
other such row of the most useful trees, in a 
parallel direction with the first one, and of sim- 
ilar form and height, continuing through the 
garden, these tree-rows shall thus form beautiful 
avenues for walkers. 

2. Twenty cubits further from this latter tree- 
row line to the middle, on every side of each 
cross street, shall be, inside of the city, a wall 
eight cubits high, and four cubits broad, which 
has a gutter on each side, and which separates 
the walks from the street. These boundary 
walls shall continue on both river-streets through 
the garden and city, bounding the river on both 
sides ; the foundations of these walls shall ex- 
tend toward the river, so as to form a strong 
substantial river-bed, and uniting with the walls 
of the great building, but interrupted at the 
bridges and at the gate-buildings. 



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8. All these boundary walls of the cross 
streets and the avenues shall cut the other streets 
at right angles at those places where the city 
division gates are, and breaking ofi' these so as 
to leave a space about the width of a gate. The 
gates of the city divisions on the principal streets 
shall be placed from one another at regular dis- 
tances, and in straight directions, with radii and 
circles opposite each other, and corresponding 
to the circle describing gates of the building 
rows at the inside of the city divisions; and 
where bridges are necessary to cross over to such 
gates, there such suitable bridges shall be built 
as will not interfere with a little navigation. 

4. The distance between the pavements of 
all the principal streets, shall be seventy-two 
cubits; these streets, raised in the middle and 
gradually descending on both sides toward the 
bordering paved foot-paths, form street gutters. 
The paved foot-paths or pavements before the 
building rows, shall be thirty-six cubits broad. 

5. On the market place at those parts where 
it is necessary, there shall be built bridges over 
the' river, an equal number at both sides of the 
great dodecagon building; and every city bridge 
shall be thirty-six cubits broad, and the sides of 
the bridges shall be guarded by gilded iron bal- 
ustrades of eight cubits in height ; in the garden 
the bridges may be built at such places and in 
such manner as will be best and most beautiful. 



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CHAPTER XXIV. 

1. The water which falls upon the city shall 
be conducted in the most convenient way through 
spouts to the inside of the building rows, there 
to be caught and used for washing and other 
purposes, the rest may be conducted through 
the street gutters into the garden, so as to meet 
at every gate of the city wall, where, passing 
through a trellis, and running under the gate 
building, it shall come on the garden side into 
the two water trenches that every radius street 
and cross street has on both its sides ; and the 
breadth of each of these trenches shall be twelve 
cubits, measured from the edge of the street to- 
wards the paved foot-path; the river streets 
alone are to discharge all their water directly 
into the river. 

2. There shall be a water-trench within the 
garden, twenty-four or thirty-six cubits broad, 
and twelve cubits from the garden wall and its 
gates, except at the river's influx, where a part 
of the water must be separated by an acute 
angle on the garden side through this trench ; a 
sufficient quantity of water from the river shall 
be conducted into the garden, and this trench 
shall also receive all the other water flowing out 
through the lowest river gate. The whole breadth 
of both river gates of the garden wall must be 
used only for the influx and outlet of the stream. 



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3. Before the other gates of the garden wall, 
at the middles of both the cross streets, and of 
the eight radius streets, shall be bridges over 
this river trench, every one movable, strong, and 
thirty-six cubits broad, and so that they will not 
interfere with the passage of small boats. In 
every garden quarter of each city quarter, as 
near the middle as possible, between the corner 
of the city wall and the garden wall, shall be a 
pond, into which water from the river trench is 
to be conducted by a bent canal, and back again 
into the river trench. 

4. The garden wall, at the height of one 
hundred and eight cubits, shall taper to the 
middle to the height of twelve cubits, measured 
perpendicularly ; and this garden wall shall be 
covered on both sides with sharp and pointed 
pieces of strong and white clear glass; these 
pieces are to be fastened in a dense and solid 
snow-white foundation ; also, outside of the gate 
buildings the garden wall must have the same 
covering, and its whole roof. The roof of each 
of these buildings, shall also extend twelve 
cubits higher than the building itself, but so that 
at both its corners the water be caught and 
conducted down through the inside of the build- 
ing, where it can be used. 

5. Also the place from the garden wall to 
the river trench, shall be covered with strong 
sharp and pointed pieces of glass, which are of 
a shining blood red color, and which shall be 



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fastened in a dense and solid blood red founda- 
tion. And to be prepared in case of an attack, 
a passage shall be left within the whole garden 
wall, from which apertures can easily be made 
in case of necessity, but this walk shall be some- 
what lighted up by some few transparent, and 
very strong plates, which are suitably joined 
into the strong thorny cover at the garden side, 
and also such transparent strong plates, but 
a larger size, shall be put in the thorny cover 
of the roofs of thisgarden wall gate buildings, 
in order to light its upper rooms, and to use them 
in case of necessity, like doors. Although we 
have to trust in the sympathising help of the 
Lord, nevertheless we ought not tempt him, be- 
cause through our reason he first helps us. 

Ezek. xxxviii. 14 : Therefore, child of man, prophecy and 
say unto Gog : Thus saith the Lord God ; in that day, when 
my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it ? 

15: And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north 
parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding 
upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army. 

16 : And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, 
as a cloud to cover the land, it shall be in the latter days, 
and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may 
know me, how I shall be sanctified in thee, Gog, before 
their eyes. 

Zech. xii. 1 : Behold I will make Jerusalem a cup of trem- 
bling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in 
the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem ? 

3 : And in that clay will I make Jerusalem a burdensome 
stone for all people ; all that burden themselves with it shall 
be cut in pieces, though all people of the earth be gath- 
ered together against it. 

4: In that day, saith the Lord, I will smite every horse 
with astonishment, and his rider with madness ; and I will 
open mine eyes upon the house of Judah ; and will smite 
every horse of the people with blindness. 



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Malachi iv. 1 : For behold the day cometh, that shall burn 
as an oven: and all the proud, yea, and all that do wicked- 
ly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn 
them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them 
neither root nor branch. 

Rev. xx. 7 : And wlien the thousand years are expired, 
Satan shall be loosed out of his prison. 

8 : And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in 
the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather 
them together to battle ; the number of whom is as the sand 
of the sea. 

9 : And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and 
compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved 
city ; and fire came down from God out of heaven, and de- 
voured them. 

6. The garden wall and city wall shall be 
made very solid, and the latter shall be mured on 
its garden side with red jasper stone by a cement 
of the same red color. Within the garden shall be 
sufficient resting places, groves and summer huts, 
all of the kind elevating and edifying the soul in 
wisdom and all true knowledge ; and there shall 
be for the persons of our people bath places, sal- 
utary to the health, suitably arranged, by the 
clean flowing waters of our garden. And every 
kind of animals and plants, which enliven our 
nature, shall live in our state. 



CHAPTER XXV. 

1. The internal of the city divisions shall 
contain building rows, alternating with streets, 
which are in the direction of the radii, from the 
middle of the city towards its periphery. Eve- 
ry one of these building rows shall be one hun- 



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dred and eight cubits high without the roof, and 
one hundred and twenty cubits broad; and 
these building rows, commencing at any one of 
the radius streets, will continue around and back 
to the place of beginning, and thus form a per- 
fect circle, and where the distance between the 
building rows is (for as the building rows are al- 
so in the direction of the radii, and extending 
to the city wall, therefore as the distance from 
the centre is increased, the distance* between 
them is also increased) an hundred and twenty 
cubits, there shall the yard of the next building 
row commence, and where the yards are a hun- 
dred and twenty cubits broad, there shall the 
building rows begin, and the vertices of the 
yards of the first building rows, shall leave at 
the corners of the market place, a space of six- 
ty cubits for each of the two streets, which com- 
mence there, and the vertices of all the yards of 
the first building rows shall commence and form 
a perfect circle around the market place. The 
aforesaid yards shall be inclosed by walls, three 
cubits broad and six high, on these walls there 
shall be ballustrades twelve cubits high, and 
which shall be pointed and well gilded. 

2. Every radius street inside of the city di- 
vision, shall have on every side a paved foot- 
path, twelve cubits broad, bordering on the 
building row and its yard, and at the other side 
forming with the street a suitable gutter. 

3. Before the beginning of the building rows, 
inside of every city division (without, at their 



from the northern cross street, shall have, in re- 
gard to the color of its paving and ornaments, 
the blue amethyst for its original, and shall be 
called Amethyst-street. The next radius street 
at the right hand from this one, shall be called 
Beryl-street, and shall be paved and decorated 
with minerals, whose colors are most like that of 
the precious green beryl. And that Star-street 
w^hich cuts through the Amethyst and Beryl 
streets, shall be called the Jacinth-street, and 
shall be paved and ornamented with minerals, 
whose colors change chiefly into the red of the 
red precious jacinth. 

6. The next radius street on the right hand 
from the eastern cross street, shall be paved and 
ornamented with those kinds of stone which are 
like the precious green chrysoprasus, and shall 
be called Chrysoprasus street. The next radius 
street at the right hand from this one, shall be 
called Chalcedony street, and shall be paved and 
decorated with minerals whose color is like the 
chyrstalised blue chalcedony. And the star 
street, which cuts through these two radius 
streets, shall be called Jasper street, and shall 
be paved and ornamented with minerals which 
are in their color most like the dark red jasper. 

7. All the streets of the city divisions which 
are situated between the blue radius streets, shall 
be ornamented and paved with minerals of blue 
colors, so that every other one shall become pro- 
portionately darker blue the nearer it is coming 
to that cross street which is situated in midst 



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thereof. And likewise shall those streets of the 
city divisions which are situated between the 
green radius streets be green — the nearer situa- 
ted towards the cross street in the middle, the 
darker green they shall be. 

8. Also, according to that rule, shall all the 
streets of the city divisions, from every blue to the 
next green radius street, be paved and ornamented 
with such minerals as become toward the middle 
of their distance more and more bright in the 
preceding proportion, so as from every green 
radius street up to the middle, these streets are 
more bright green. And from every blue radius 
street up to that middle, the blue color of these 
streets shall be more and more bright-blue, so 
that these two colors round about within the 
city melt one into the other. Also, the pave- 
ment of the market-place shall accord in its 
colors with the cross and all the radius streets 
round in the circle, so striking a point into the 
centre of the city, as if all those streets were 
beginning there. 

Rev. xxi. 19: And the foundations of the wall of the 
city were garnished with all kinds of precious stones. The 
first foundation was jasper ; the second, sapphire; the third, 
a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; 

20: The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, 
chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, 
a chrysoprasus ; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an 
amethyst. 

9. The gate buildings of the city wall shall be 
on the whole city side covered with a clear pearl- 
white shining smalt, and decorated with pearls 



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CHAPTER XXVI. 

L When a great union of the noblest and 
best men will devote every means possible to the 
honor of their true faith and their eternal salva- 
tion, then they must accomplish the greatest and 
noblest work which ever was on earth. 

Isa. iv. 2 : In that day shall the branch of the Lord be 
beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be 
excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. 
3. And it shall corae to pass, that he that is left in Zion and 
he that remaineth in Jerusalem shall be called holy, even 
every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem. 

2. According to all the preceding, the cross 
and river streets shall be paved with blood-red 
stones, similar to blood-red jasper; and also its 
boundary walls shall be of such red stones, and 
the frontiers of the building rows, which border 
on these streets, shall have the same blood-red 
appearance, and be put up of stones of the same 
color; and all these blood-red foundations, walls, 
and fronts of building rows, shall be ornamented 
with noble stones and precious stones of such 
red colors. 

Rev. xxi. 11: And her light was like unto a stone most 
precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal. 18: 
And the building of the wall of it was of jasper ; and the 
city was- pure gold, like unto clear glass. 

3. From the centre of the city directed, the 
first radius-street to the right hand from the 
south cross-street, shall be called Sapphire street, 
and be paved and ornamented with stones of such 



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a blue color, most like the principal appearance 
of the precious sapphire. 

Isa. liv. 11 : thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not 
comforted, behold: I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and 
lay thy foundations with sapphires. 12. And I will make 
thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and 
all thy borders of pleasant stones. 

The next radius street from this one to the 
right hand, shall be called Emerald-street, and 
be paved and decorated with minerals of the 
color, which is most like the precious green em- 
erald. 

Rex. iv. 3. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper 
and a sardine stone : and there was a rainbow round about 
the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. 

The Stars-street, which cuts through these two 
radius streets, shall be called Opal-street, and be 
paved and ornamented with minerals which have 
their colors like opals and precious fire opals. 

4. The next radius street to the right hand 
from the western cross street, shall be called 
Chrysolite-street', and be paved and ornamented 
with minerals of that green color, which is most 
like the precious chrysolite. The next radius 
street to the right hand from this one, shall be 
paved and decorated with such minerals, whose 
color is most like that blue of the blue topaz, and 
shall be called Topaz-street. And the color of 
the paving and ornament of that Star-street, 
which cuts through both these radius streets, shall 
be like the most precious garnet, and its name be 
Garnet-street. 

5. The next radius street to the right hand 



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first beginning by the market place,) shall be a 
transverse street a hundred and twenty cubits 
broad, with paved paths at their sides, each one 
shall be twenty four cubits broad ; and the same 
distance from the bordering building row of the 
same city division, these shall break off, forming 
another transverse street, which shall be called, to 
distinguish it from the former, final street. Yet 
the same building rows must continue on their 
radius lines within the successive city divisions, 
multiplying themselves in the manner described. 

4. The radius building rows and the radius 
streets within every city division, shall be named 
according to their position relative to two num- 
bers, the first number signifying the beginning, 
reckoned from the centre of the city, the second 
signifying the number from the left to the right 
side w T ithin the same cit ydivision* 

5. On the roofs of all the building rows there 
shall be paths, twelve cubits broad, measured 
from the edges of the roofs toward their middles, 
and on the outer edge of these paths shall be 
well fastened gilded iron ballustrades, nine cu- 
bits high. These ballustrades shall contain the 
names of their respective streets, building row, 
and of the latter's contents ; these letters being 
composed of mineral beauties and curiosities. 

6. From the inner border of these roof paths, 
the roofs of all the building rows, shall gradually 
rise to the height of twelve cubits, at the middle 
of its breadth, and forming at the conjunction of 
the roof and roof paths a kennel. And the roof 



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paths shall communicate with others joining them 
rectangularly at every hundred and twenty cu- 
bits; however it may be varied to suit places ; 
these communication roof paths must be of the 
same breadth, but without ballustrades, and a 
little elevated in the middle, and at the middle 
of these latter paths there shall be doors. 

7. The roofs of the building rows may be 
at some parts covered with transparent plates, 
where the inside requires it ; but these plates 
must be alternately used with the above men- 
tioned gilded metal plates ; for only the pure 
gold cannot be affected by the influence of the 
atmosphere, therefore, all the roofs in our city 
shall be covered with gold: plates of the most 
suitable metal gilded will be the best; and the 
roof kennels shall be made of the same gilded 
metal plates. The roof paths must be covered 
with snow white cement, w T hich is solid and wa- 
ter proof. 

8. Gates shall be through the building rows 
of the inside of the city divisions by every cir- 
cle, where begins a building row, forming a cir- 
cle street, whose middle of the breadth has to 
pass twenty-four cubits before the fountains, in 
regular circles round within the city, every one 
of these gates rectangularly cutting through its 
building row, and of the same breath and size as 
are the other gates of the city. 

Ps. cxxii. 3 : Jerusalem is builded as a city that is com- 
pact together. 



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the garden wall, in which is the sapphire street, 
shall be called Nature of the Lion, and that in 
which is the Chrysolite street, Nature of Man; and 
that, in which is the Amethyst street have the 
name Nature of the Calf ; and that, in which is 
the Chrysoprasus street, be called the Nature of 
the Eagle. 

5. Perfectly according to the art of cultiva- 
tion of a garden, snail our garden be arranged 
symetrically in its applications and paths; with 
circle roads round the w^hole garden, called by 
number of its succession. The other ways and 
paths shall be called by names of families of 
plants, and by bushes and trees of wdiich plants 
must be sufficiency therein. The ponds, the 
resting places, the rivulets, the groves, etc. shall 
be called by animals, which chiefly inhabit the 
same district. 

Isa. lx. 13 : The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, 
the fire tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beau- 
tify the place of my sanctuary ; and I will make the place 
of my feet glorious. 

14: The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come 
bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee, shall 
bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall 
call thee : The city of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of 
Israel. 

6. The gates of the garden wall shall have 
the following names : always directed from the 
centre of the city, that gate towards the north, 
shall be called Judah-gate, the next therefrom on 
the right hand, Levi-gate, and the next on the left 
hand from Judah-gate be called Reuben-gate. 
The gate directed to the east shall be called Benja- 



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min-gate, and the next to that on the left hand, 
Joseph-gate, and from Benjainin-gate the next 
on the right Daniel-gate. The garden-wall-gate 
towards the south shall be called Issachar-gate, 
the next to this on the left Simeon-gate, and the 
next to that on the right, Zebulon-gate. That 
directed to the west shall be called Asser-gate, 
and the next to this on the left, Gad-gate, and 
the next on the right hand to Asser-gate be 
called Napthila-gate. 

Ezek. xlviii. 31 : And the gates of the city shall be after 
the names of the tribes of Israel ; three gates northward ; 
one gate of Reuben etc. 

7. The gates of the city wall shall have the 
following names : That, through which the river 
comes into the city, shall be called John-gate, 
and always directed from the centre of the city 
on the right hand; the next gate from John-gate 
shall be called Andreas-gate; and the next one 
to this on the right hand, Philipus-gate; and the 
next one to this, Paul-gate ; the next to this, 
Bartholomeus-gate; the next to this, Thomas-gate; 
and the lower river gate, James-gate; the next 
gate to this, Matthew-gate; the next Alphew- 
gate; and the next Peter-gate ; the next to this, 
Lebbew-gate; and the next to that shall be called 
Simon-gate. 

8. The names of the city divisions shall be thus: 
Every one of the four city divisions, w T hich is situa- 
ted the next on the right hand of the four cross 
streets, from coming into the city, shall be called 
Ephesus, and the other four opposite along the 



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people, until its vanquishing truths become more 
and more revealed. Thus, it may seem to many 
people, that such a building, as I have described 
this city to be, was an impracticable thing; for 
who likes to do much merely for God? Howev- 
er, there is many a single person rich enough to 
deliver all the gold to the roofs of this city; but 
I say, she will not only be practicable for the ad- 
vanced gentle christians, but she will be very ne- 
cessary for them too. 

1 Thess T. 19 : Quench not the Spirit. 

2. Such a society must get very rich, whilst 
all working for the best possible design, for an 
abode of the undoubtedly most holy principles; 
they have the surest expectation of their merci- 
fully perfect union with their bride-groom. A 
whole city, in which is not seen any evil, is a re- 
semblance of the universe, which is the only most 
perfect temple; it is a want of honor for whole 
Christianity in the sight of the universe, that we 
have not yet fixed up its only real and true tem- 
ple, to which its heart and its three-fold founder 
himself gave the advice; notwithstanding the pro- 
phecies will be exactly fulfilled in that concern 
too, for the pure in heart, w T ho do only see God 
or the Good, and who flee the unclean things, 
will bring out from their heaven this tabernacle 
of God into reality. 

Rev. xxi. 10: And he carried me away in the Spirit to a 
great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, 
the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. 
22. And I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty 
and the Lamb are the temple of it. 



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Jsa. xli. 14: Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of 
Israel; I will help thee, saith tbe Lord, and thy Redeemer, 
the Holy One of Israel. 20. That they may see. and know, 
and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the 
Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath cre- 
ated it. 

Isa. xhri. 11: Calling a ravenons bird from the east, the 
man that executeth my counsel from a far country, yea, I 
have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass: I have purposed 
it, I will also do it. 

Heb. xii. 22: But ye are come unto mount Zion, and un- 
to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and 
to an innumerable company of angels. 

3. The four quarters of our whole city with 
the garden, will be most properly denominated 
by the four original natures of man, which were 
distinguished already by the ancients: I distin- 
guish them in a purely spiritual regard briefly thus: 
The character in which is especially a righteous 
anger the incitement of his power, I call it the 
nature of the lion; that in which a holy passion 
is especially the motive of his power, I call it the 
nature of the calf ; and the character in which a 
pure strong judgment is the principal incite- 
ment of its power, I call it the nature of man ; 
and that in which a spirited multi-lateral ingen- 
uity is steadily producing new power, I call it 
the nature of the eagle. 

Rev. iv. 7: And the first beast was like a Lion, and the 
second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as 
a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. 

Ezek. i. 10: As for the likeness of their faces, they four 
had the face of a man. and the face of a lion, on the right 
side; and they four had the face of an ox, and the face of 
an eagle on the left side. 

4. Therefore the city quarter approaching to 



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and bright shells, as a sign of the transition into 
the reign of arts and knowledge, and from the 
organic to the inorganic state. So the gate 
streets shall be called pearl streets too, and ev- 
ery single one distinguished by the quarter of 
the heavens, and be lengthened on both its ends 
to the cross and river streets. Every one of 
these pearl streets shall be paved with minerals 
of those colors which have all the different kinds 
of pearls, shells, corals, petrefactions, etc., and 
be manifold and most beautifully decorated with 
the most precious kinds of all these minerals. 

Rev. xxi. 21 : And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, 
every several gate was of one pearl; and the street of the 
city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. 

10. Every building row inside of the city 
quarters, from the pavement of the bordering 
street upwards, twenty and four cubits high, 
shall be mured with the same colored minerals 
as the pavement of the bordering street contains, 
and be decorated as fairly as possible with noble 
and precious stones of the resembling color. 
But from the bordering line of these twenty-four 
cubits high, upwards to the edge of the roof, 
shall be mured all those sides of the building 
rows with snow-white minerals, so that they 
shine white like snow. 

11. Every one of those transverse streets 
inside the city divisions, which are situated next 
to the star and gate streets, shall be paved and 
ornamented with minerals of such kinds and 
colors which the next parallel principal street 



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has, with the difference, that those next the star 
streets be more bright colored, and those next 
the pearl streets more dark ; but on the other 
transverse streets shall symmetrically continue 
those on the market-place beginning colors of 
the radius streets. And those toward the mar- 
ket-place bordering sides of the building rows, 
and likewise the outside of the great dodecagonal 
house, shall be from the bordering pavement so 
colored as this is, mured and decorated with such 
minerals twenty-four cubits high, from which 
line up to the edge of the roof they shall be 
shining snow-white. 

12. If we should meet a want of natural 
minerals of all those fine colors and its changes, 
then we can make use of the arts by making 
artificial minerals, or the powder of them well 
founded on the ground. Let us still try to do 
what we can, being assured that it is a work of 
certain prophecy, and thus our Lord will surely 
help and meet us. 

Dan. xii. 10: Many shall be purified, and made white, 
and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of 
the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 

1. Likewise, as the not-touching of the spir- 
itually unclean, or as the not-perceiving of the 
bad, is the basis of the constitution of our peo- 
ple, and may seem to be exaggeration for many 



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left hand side Laodicea. And by coming into 
the city through the cross street gates, the four 
city divisions between these gates, and the next 
city wall gates on the right hand, shall be called 
Smyrna, and the four city divisions between the 
cross street gates, and the next city wall gates 
on the left hand, shall be called Philadelphia ; 
the city divisions, w r hich form the four corners 
of the city, shall be called Pergamos; those 
which are situated next, opposite to that, Thya- 
tira ; and the four city divisions, which are situ- 
ated between Thyatira and the market place, shall 
be called Sardis. 

Isa. xlix. 16: Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms 
of my hands; thy walls are continually before me. 

17: Thy children, who will build thee with joy (Heb. ban- 
ajich, meharsajich) shall make haste; thy destroyers and 
they that made thee waste, shall go forth of thee. 

18 : Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold : all these 
gather themselves together and come to thee. As I live, 
saith the Lord, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all 
as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride 
doeth. 

9. The afore-mentionecl names of the gates 
shall be put on both their sides, written in the 
four languages most used by our people, at every 
side too, in a beautiful style, and also the names 
of the city divisions at suitable and correspond- 
ing places, and by fairly applied representations 
on its outside, may be designated the names of 
the city quarters. Bells of different kinds, shall 
be suitably applied above every gate building. 



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CHAPTER XXVIII. 

L The preceding described triangular yards, 
which form the beginning of the radius building 
rows, shall be arranged in the following manner: 
On every place, where the gallaries or balus- 
trades join, shall be fountains, so that on every 
one of these corners one fountain can be used 
outside on the street, and inside of the yard. 
From these fountains through the middle of 
every one of the yards, shall be a row of pro- 
ductive and shady trees, and within their yards 
shall be kept and raised domestic animals of 
every kind, none larger than swine, and accord- 
ing to the planned symmetry of the yards. 

2. Bordering upon this yard, inside of every 
one of these building rows, there shall be a 
dining room, occupying the whole breadth of its 
inside, and a hundred and twenty cubits long ; 
after this hall there shall be attached two spa- 
cious kitchens, which occupy the whole breadth 
of the building row, on every side of it one 
kitchen, so that a person can pass between both 
from the first dining hall into a second one, 
which borders upon these kitchens too, and which 
is like the first one. These halls and kitchens 
shall be sufficiently high, and very fairly and 
comfortably arranged, and every one of the two 
halls shall also rest upon four pillars, and have 
one of the two kitchens for its use, for they shall 
be the dining halls of our people. 



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3. In every dining hall, shall be written on 
every one of the four pillars on both sides with 
clear letters, the words of the sacrament of the 
Lord's supper ; on every side the words of an 
apostle, and thus every one of these quotations 
twice, which are : Matt. xxvi. 26, 27, 28 ; Mrk. 
xiv. 22, 23, 24 ; Luke, xxii. 17, 18, 19, 20 ; 1 
Cor. xi. 23, 24, 25. Of all the perfections, 
which the Lord requires from us, cannot be ex- 
cluded, to rest, to sleep, to eat, etc., all which are 
the next remembrance, how far our materiality 
keeps our perfection below the heavenly perfec- 
tion, that our sinfulness is of such a severe char- 
acter, that it must always occupy somewhat our 
fleshly nature, therefore we must wash this, our 
cover, and ourselves, steadily again, with the 
blood of the Lamb, which only is able to give us 
our perfection ; wherefore every eating company 
of our people shall determine, themselves, when 
they will solemnize the sacrament of the Lord's 
supper, and shall take that in place of a regular 
meal, (although life and the arrangement of 
our little state is a sacrament to our Lord's sup- 
per.) Rev. xix. 17. 

4. Every one of those dining halls with its 
kitchen shall be designed for an eating company 
of a hundred persons, of which, if possible, the 
half be male and the other half female persons. 
Three male and three female persons of this 
party shall be employed in their kitchen and 
dining hall, every one during three years, but 
so that every year two of them, one male and 



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one female person, give up their places to two 
others ; their employments consisting in serv- 
ing their eating company in their dining hall, and 
in being cooks ; also to conduct the economy of 
the whole entertainment of the dining house. 

They shall sell every kind of drinks to the 
persons of our people, whatever they may like; 
but drunkards, and moral confinements, given 
by men, will not remain amongst our people. 

1. Tim. iv. 3, 4: For every creature of God is good, and 
nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanks giving. 

v. 23 ; Drink no longer water but use a little wine for thy 
stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities. 

Matt. xxvi. 29 : But I say unto you, I will not drink 
henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I 
drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom. 

5. The oldest person of those six table ser- 
vants shall be the master of the dining hall ; he 
shall receive the money for boarding, and keep 
the whole treasury of his dining hall, feed the 
animals of its yard though the use of that yard 
with its contents belongs to the two dining com- 
panies, and his orders shall be carried out, unless 
it is opposed or altered by four of the five other 
persons of the same kitchen, but he shall have 
nothing to do with the works of the kitchen, to 
whose direction there shall be set apart another 
person of these six ; one of those two, who enter 
the last year of their three service years, shall 
be first cook in the last year, or clerk of the 
kitchen, so that it be the male person of the two, 
when the master of the hall is a female, but 
when this is a male person, then shall the female 



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person be the first cook or clerk of the kitchen. 

6. When a person comes into the service of 
this eating board, who is fifteen or more years 
older than the master of the hall, that one shall 
receive this place, and amongst the hundred per- 
sons of one eating company, it shall go round 
in rotation, so that every person of it comes in 
turn as often as the other, to be installed by the 
kitchen board ; and those, who will not serve, 
when it is their turn, have to transfer their func- 
tion to another person of the same eating compa- 
ny; therefore it be hereby permitted, that the 
same person serve two terms continually, then he 
shall be dispensed with at least for one term, 
and work at something else. 

7. No person of our people shall leave un- 
paid any of his bills longer than a quarter of a 
year ; it would, however, be best to pay them 
soon. 

Rom. xiii. 8. Owe no man any thing, but to love one an- 
other; for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. 



CHAPTER XXIX. 

1. To perfection belongs also that of the 
whole exteriority. Thus, the horse should per- 
fectly accord to the rider; and because our offi- 
cers will often have to ride, in order to save 
strength and time for their office, therefore, it 
must be done in the following manner, to be per- 
fect: The elders and teachers of our people, 



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whilst they are in office, shall ride white horses, 
for the duties of their office engage them in the 
immediate occupation with the purity of spiritual 
things. The wardens shall ride horses of red 
color, for their holy duties oblige them to an ar- 
dent employment with the most lively achieve- 
ments of the people's holy designs. The trea- 
surers shall ride black horses, for the duties of 
their office engage them to the immediate occu- 
pation with that which causes most? easily dark- 
ness among men, and which shows always the 
land-mark of earthly from heavenly things; they 
are separating the dark lies and deceits by their 
just fixture of prices. 

Rev. vi. 5 : And I beheld, and lo, a black horse; and he 
that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. 

6. And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts 
say: A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures 
of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the 
wine. 

2. Those who should slide back from our peo- 
ple by spiritual death, shall be separated out of 
it, and from our whole district, on a horse of in- 
definite color, grissled or pale ; for the duties to 
which these persons are obliged by their con- 
science, speak in their heart, perceiving the necss- 
sity to become separated from the holy society, 
where they have faded like pale leaves. 

Zech. vi. 2. In the first chariot were red horses; in the 
second chariot were black horses. 

3. And in the third chariot white horses; and in the fourth 
chariot grizzled and bay horses. 

Rev. vi. 2, 4, 5, 8. * * and behold a pale horse, and his 
name that sat on him was death. 



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3. Christians are of very different degrees of 
perfection, which makes our active state impor- 
tant; and hence arises the necessity that every 
person of our people must strictly execute the 
following duties: When any person of our people 
has become a stumbling stone to any other per- 
son thereof, he shall ask him who is spiritually 
dying, for his name and residence, on a card, and 
then he shall deliver this record to the respective 
couple of elders. Every city division shall have 
its own pair of elders, who keep an especial book 
for this object, wherein are gathered the records 
against persons who reside in their division; those 
elders have then soon and strictly to execute the 
following decisions. 

4. When according to these records any one 
person becomes spiritually dead for twelve or 
more persons, then shall an order of the male 
elder of the respective pair of elders, either his 
herald or a city attendant, with one respective 
warden, both on horses, bring a grizzled or pale 
horse to that one who became spiritually dead 
for our people ; thereby the warden has the com- 
mand to declare to the excluded in the name of 
our people, to leave our state on this horse or on 
foot, in their escort to the gate of the garden 
wall, and thence in escort of farmers of our dis- 
trict until over its line. If he have been two 
years or longer by our people, and if he took the 
offered horse to ride, then he will be permitted to 
keep that horse for his property; but he must, 
before his separation, subject himself always to a 



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strict examination, so that he cannot take more 
with himself than his working dress, and that 
part of his salary, which is due to him, from the 
time of the last general payment term up to the 
same day of his separation, deducting his debts 
and the state's expenses. Those excluded can 
never lay any claim to our people's property af- 
terwards. 

5. At certain times which all the fortv eight 
elders together have to fix, all the excluding 
records must be burned up and forgotten. Those, 
however, who caused many records against them- 
selves shall be quickly excluded in the way de- 
fined. One person can only deliver one exclud- 
ing record against another; after that he is not 
permitted to observe him, until the next time of 
the general oblivion of all records. An expe- 
rienced christian cannot find fault with this strong 
method; it can and shall be carried out with true 
love, but it is only for the purpose of bringing 
the equally pious together, and to teach them all 
in our Lord's school of education. A single per- 
son has to pardon, when the sinner's heart truly 
entreats him, before his delivery of the record. 

6. The excluding record includes single sins 
of lies, of hatred offences, malignant scorns, and 
whatsoever is against the ten commandments and 
Jesus Christ ; but whoever is going to steal, or 
to defile property of any other one, or his per- 
son, or chastity, must be directly brought out of 
our State, without defalcation, seized through 
the next surrounding citizens. This severity 



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cannot be called unmerciful, but love to the holy 
place, and esteem of punishments of grace. 

7. What else will be necessary to the most 
possible perfection and free purification of our 
people, shall be defined so righteously, shortly, 
and strictly as possible, by the twenty-four ac- 
tive elders. Our people shall be like one person, 
raised and educated by God, according to the 
Lord's prayer. Therefore, it must be the rule, 
that at the time of the complete regulation of 
our little holy state, no person shall be a citizen 
or member of our people, whose age is less than 
twenty-five years. 

Isa. xlv. 2 : I will go before thee, and make the crooked 
places straight ; I will break in pieces the gates of brass, 
and cut in sunder the bars of iron. 

3 : And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and 
hidden riches of secret places, that thou niayest know that 
I, the Lord, which call thee by thy name, am the God of 
Israel. 

5 : I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God 
besides me : I girded thee, though thou hast not known me. 

17 : But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an ever- 
lasting salvation; ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded, 
world without end. 

Isa. Ixii. 1 : For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, 
and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest until the righteous- 
ness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation there- 
of as a lamp that burneth. 

2 : And the Gentiles shall see tlrv righteousness, and all 
kings thy glory; etc. ^ 



CHAPTER XXX. 
1. Our people shall be possessed of more 



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land adjoining the garden Wall from this in a 
straight direction of the radius streets, unto the 
sea ; or if it is on the continent, twelve thousand 
feet farther, where our little state shall be fenced 
in the whole circle around, and the country be- 
tween our garden w r all and this limit shall be 
divided, by radius lines from the centre, into 
twenty-eight equal parts. Within every one of 
these divisions, shall be an institution for the 
education of those children whose parents are 
received among our people, and for the planter's 
children of the same districts, where these chil- 
dren shall be raised up usefully for their Lord 
and his world at our holy state's expense. 

2. Every one of these country divisions shall 
be governed by a city division, although with 
the common use and the common expenses 
of our whole people. There it shall principally 
be raised, fire wood, wine and produce of the 
field ; and shall likewise be used for keeping 
beasts, etc., but still only our garden must so be 
prepared as to support us with all requisites. 
The possessions of our country district shall be 
let out to righteous friends of our people ; or to 
such persons who had been at least one year 
among our people, and remain one year longer 
among us to consider, whether they should mar- 
ry or not. These planters of our country 
districts shall accord to our will, design and 
christian belief, and our treatment of them shall 
be liberal and free. 

3, It would accord the best to keep the sick in- 



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stitutions within our city district. And because 
the true knowledge is of God, so he will show 
that he pays regard to it, after he did show by 
wonders who is the omnipotent Lord. 

Collos. ii. 3. In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom 
and knowledge. 
4. Besides of the different sick institutions shall 

also be a hill in our country districts, on whose top 
is a well arranged house for depositing the dead, 
with rooms, which can be warmed. Every corpse 
shall be laid in one of these rooms, until it begins 
to putrify; or if it dry, by moderate warmth, it 
shall lay there seven days : after this, it shall be 
buried, by a few persons, within the country dis- 
trict, without ceremony. 

Ezek. xliv. 25. And they shall come at no dead person to 
defile themselves; but for father, or for mother, or for son ? 
or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no 
husband, they may defile themselves. 

26. And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him 
seven days. 

28. And it shall be unto them for an inheritance : I am 
their inheritance, and ye shall give them no possession in Is- 
rael, I am their possession. 



CHAPTER XXXI. 

1. The true christian is known by his spirit 
of celebration and the degree of corruptness of 
the wicked, by their erroneous way of celebration 
or adoration. The unbelievers and superstitious, 
it is true, retain somewhat of the hilarity of a 
child; but of true meditation, thev have no idea. 
7 



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They therefore celebrate, without devotion, false- 
ly, and bring their sacrifices to the evil spirit ; 
they always celebrate in fanatacism ; that is to 
say, they let their feelings always govern their 
reason. Some of thern suppress their judgment 
by animal appetite, and others by wrong feelings 
in consequence of their erroneous opinions ; and 
thus both reason and feeling become spoiled. 

The bigoted belong to this same class. They 
are the most dangerous of all ; for in their proud 
imagination to understand every thing best, they 
subdue least their passions ; their ideas become 
more and more erroneous; they still do think, but 
not truly on truth — but on trifling things; they 
thus become more acquainted with the devil than 
with God, whom they first lose out of their eyes, 
then out of their hearts, and consequently that 
characteristic openness, contentedness and nai- 
vete, and in short all those qualities of a child, 
and therefore they become unworthy of the king- 
dom of God. 

Thus, they pronounce a thing sinful on the 
Sabbath, which must appear to the child-like heart 
agreeable to God: for instance, to pay debts, mu- 
sic, taking a walk, etc. They imagine a two-fold 
holiness — one for the Sabbath, and another for 
the days of the week. For this reason, I deem 
it necessary to treat here more extensively on the 
subject of celebration or service. 

Religious service, celebration, or uniting with 
God, the Three-One, admits of a three-form,* viz: 
1. In Solitude ; 2. In the Congregation ; and 3, 
In Nature at large. 



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1. The service, bv close meditation and con- 
templation, in solitude, see Matt. vii. 6. If we 
cannot enter a chamber for the purpose, we may 
seek a chamber in the fields of nature; and if we 
cannot do this, then we can enter the chamber of 
our own heart, excluding all other thoughts, think- 
ing only of Jesus ; for we, who know Him, also 
know; that we cannot accemplish any thing with- 
out Him: (John xiv. 6.) There is no other name 
given to mankind, by which they shall become 
happy, but the name of Christ Jesus: (Acts iv. 
12.) In Christ there is God manifest, (Col. ii. 
9,) and what we shall pray for in his name, that 
He will give unto us: (John xiv. 14.) Here^we 
must consider, that as sure as God is just and 
perfect, there must be punishment for our sins 
and disagreeable consequences of our sinful na- 
ture. Here we love to compare the darkness of 
our heart, to the light of God ; our folly, to his 
wisdom; our weakness, to his power; our poverty, 
to his riches; our misery to his mercy; our sins, 
to his grace; because for the penitent sinner, who 
confesses his wickedness with sorrow and anxiety, 
he made his mercy so great, that it keeps the bal- 
ance with his justice. He made his only begot- 
ten Son bear acd suffer for the sins of the world, 
(John i. 29, iii. 16, Ez. xxxiii. 12, etc.,) made him 
a curse, (Gal. iii. 13, Ez. Ixiii. 5,) and a sacrifice, 
(Mark xvi. 45, 1 Cor. xv. 3,) for all, who desire 
him and believe in him, (Mark xvi. 16,) and who 
do his will, (John viii. 51.) Thus, the blood of Je- 
sus Christ makes us free of all sins, (1 John i. 17, 



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Rom. iii. 24, Col. i. 14.) It purifies us from all 
sins, not only for the sake of the satisfaction giv- 
en to absolute justice, which excludes all exemp- 
tion from punishment, as the government would 
then fall in utter disorder; but also on account of 
the condition, that we must daily die as regards 
our old Adam, and putting on the new man in 
Christ, by obeying the words of our good Shep- 
herd, who gave his life for us. Thus, we are in 
the eyes of absolute justice, not any more the 
same, but considered new children, who were born 
again by the spirit or word of Jesus, for his words 
are spirit and life, (John vi. 63.) 

2. Celebration in communion with the congre- 
gation. It consists in listening to the explana- 
tion of the word of God, to pray and sing in com- 
munity with others, and to partake of the means 
of grace, the sacraments. It keeps the members 
in peace, and on an equal degree of religious 
kilbwledge and edification. Christ demands this 
kind of celebration in Matt, xviii. 20, as also by 
instituting the sacrament of the altar in the pre- 
sence of his congregated disciples, or in sending 
the Holy Spirit, w T hen they were also congregated 
likewise in his ascension, etc. The sermon should 
always furnish proofs or evidences, since faith is 
to come from preaching, (Rom. x. 17.) In it God 
should always appear manifest in Christ, his honor 
maintaining ; for, says he, when you shall raise 
the Son of Man, (John viii. 28,) then you will 
know, that He is in his Father and his Father in 
him. Singing and music ought to be lively, colv 



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responding to life. The hymns of the church 
ought to contain firm faith, warm and holy love, 
praise, thanksgiving to the Three-One God. No 
hymn dare to be changed in its contents, but 
should remain as it was made by its author. The 
shameless changing of them, as false priests have 
been practising, and the exclusion of the best old 
hymns from our new hymn books, is what the 
prophet Amos has prophesied, chap. viii. 3. Mu- 
sic may belong to this, or likewise to the third 
kind of celebration, even without singing. 

3. Celebration in the contemplation of God 
in his creatures. It consists in studying nature, 
to become more and more acquainted with the 
perfection, designs and rules of the Creator, by 
searching in the different fields of nature to con- 
template God, as Paul says 1 Cor. xiv. 15. 

Here we have to be on our watch, not be over- 
come by temptation, which we can only avoid, if 
we have the true source of this celebration in our 
heart, namely, the new birth in Christ Jesus — 
that love which he produces, and which corrects 
views on all things. 

This kind of celebration appears to be the 
most prominent, from the fact that Christ took 
all his parables from nature; besides, the two 
others emanate from, this kind. The following 
passages of the scriptures, may be read with res- 
pect to this subject: 1 Thess. ii. 19-22, 1 Cor. 
xii. 4-20, Ezek. v. 18, 19, 20, Ps. cvii. 1, Ps. 
xcii. 4, 5, Ps. xxxiii. 1, 2, 3, Ez. xlii. 10, Kev. 
xiv. 3. 



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4. Celebration can be expressed by language, 
music, singing and keeping of time or tempo in 
music. All that we can perceive in the creation 
of the God of our faith, consists by and in the 
most perfect harmony, and the more we see into 
the character of the Creator, the more we will 
feel ourselves overawed by this harmony. Now, 
as we can soonest get a right idea of harmony 
by means of music, therefore it is best calculated 
to bear us in community with each other, in the 
same devotion, through Christ on equal wings to 
the Lord on High. And the more different 
sounds united by harmony, the higher will music 
bear us to the spirit of the most harmonious in 
Heaven. Therefore will the most skilful artists 
always be the most pious men, and shall move 
out of the impure Babylon with the children of 
Israel, as is said in Jer. xvi. 9. Ez. xxiv. 8, Ez s 
xxri. 13, Rev. xviii. 22. 

5. Singing is an expression of the soul, whilst 
it feels the harmony, although the sounds may 
not exactly correspond with these feelings, yet 
singing of every description, at any proper time 
and at any proper place, will be 9 agreeable to 
God, if the meaning of the words is only good 
and pure ; for every thing which is proper and 
true, belongs to the kingcjom of God, (Luke 
xxxii. 7, 8, 9,) Even dancing moves in the har- 
mony of God. The most perfect dancing con- 
sists in the keeping of proper time in the 
harmony of the universe. Nature, when unin- 
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time or dance — namely, in its regular changes, 
and its pulses strike the time thereto. 

On account of our broken nature — i. e., our 
mortality — we take occasion to call the relation 
of these changes to each other, "time." We 
would consider this word "time," entirely super- 
fluous, if we had not become mortal; for our 
whole activity of life would . then still be per- 
fectly congruous with the eternal dance in the 
harmony of the universe, according to the eter- 
nal "tempo" of his will. Christ, however, is 
given us now for an assistant, and if we do his 
will, our actions will again become eternally 
timely, agreeing with original nature. But this 
will of Christ would not permit that worldly and 
wild dancing, which has never created any good, 
but lusts, fraud, and misfortunes. To this kind 
of celebration belongs the procession, which 
agrees very well with the third kind of service, 
and which must be brought to practice amongst 
ns. That sort of dancing, which is meant in the 
Bible, (Exodus,) consisted more in a procession, 
and was more earnest and solemn, than anything 
else; but not to create desires amongst the. dif- 
ferent sexes. It is rather probable, that men 
with women proceeded in "tempo" — at least, the 
cause of these dances must have been of an 
earnest and holy description. 



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CHAPTER XXXIL 

1. On the place, then, where we cannot touch 
the Unclean, our body can become quite the res- 
idence of the spirit of Christ, becoming his very 
temple, which renders ourselves sons and daugh- 
ters of God, 2 Cor. vi. 18. This transformation 
rejoices us, obliging ourselves to celebrate the 
following Sabbath and holy days, which I notice 
here, according to the three modes of its origin. 
The first mode is instituted by God the Father, 
whereto belongs every celebration of rest after 
the work, but principally the commanded seventh 
day or Saturday, which is the Sabbath of the 
Lord. 

Gen. ii. 3 : And God blessed the seventh day. 

Ex. xx. 10: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the 
Lord thy God, in it thou shalt do no work. 11. For in six 
days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that 
in them is, and rested the seventh day, wherefore the Lord 
blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 

xxxi. 14, 15, Six days may work be done, but in the sev- 
enth is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord ; whosoever 
doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put 
to death. 17. It is a sign between me and the children of 
Israel for ever ; for in six days the Lord made heaven and 
earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. 

xxxv. 2, etc. etc. 

Jesus confirmed this celebration of the seventh 
day, or Saturday, commanding to keep the ten 
commandments, and in Matt. v. 17, xix. 17, 
xxiv. 20. 

But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither 
on the sabbath day. 



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xv. 3 : But he answered and said unto them : Why do ye 
also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition ? 
(ordinances.) 

Secondly, belongs to this mode the celebration 
of the birth-day of John the Baptist; that is, 
the call of God, through which we shall repent, 
for the kingdom of heaven is near ; and prepare 
the way of the Lord, that we shall make his 
paths straight inside and outside. 

2. The second mode of our holy-days indi- 
cates itself actively by considering that, although 
resembling in our life with the holiest strict 
righteousness of God, damnation and even his 
curse must fall upon us, unless the Son of God, 
the most holy King of the heavens as a man, in 
whom nothing w T as damnable, had atoned for our 
guilt, to do honor and satisfaction to the most 
necessary and highest righteousness of God, in 
order that his mercy may richly come upon us. 
This salvation completely obliges us to the Son 
of God, for the inheritance of all unbounded 
blessedness, and to God the Father, who never 
is in need of us, but who did nevertheless not 
forbear his own beloved Son to save us. We 
therefore have principally to solemnise, thirdly, 
the birth-day of Jesus Christ. Men do not un- 
derstand the importance of this day, but angels 
certainly do, as we have in every case the best 
reason to believe that of which Paulined Beuerly 
in Weilheim on the Teck, speaks, A. D. 1832 and 
33: "She was the most credible clairvoyant, be- 
cause she proved it ; her history may be read, it 
is published, taken doubly on record before the 



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world ; the angel who challenged her at every 
time, to tell again, what he told her in commis- 
sion of the reign of God, permitted her to declare 
expressly on the thirtieth of December, 1832, 
after having brought her into a high state of 
blessedness, the following: "Tell the inhabitants 
of the earth, that thou hast now gotten the 
change to tell them, when Jesus Christ was born, 
the Son of the Most High. That it is now 1835 
years, consequently three years more, and not 
the twenty-fifth of December as. ye do count, 
but he was born on the thirtieth December, in the 
morning between three and four o'clock; that is 
the right hour, day, month, and the year." I 
mention, that this was the third time that angels 
informed us of the birth of our Saviour. We have 
therefore to solemnise the thirtieth of December 
as the birth-day of Jesus, and to add three years 
to the number of our years. 

3. Fourthly, we have joyfully to solemnise 
the day of the circumcision of Jesus; fifthly, 
the day of his death, on which he deprived death 
of his power ; sixthly, the day of his resurrec- 
tion; seventhly, the day of his ascension to 
heaven. 

4. To the third mode of the origin of our 
celebrating and holy-days, which is the saving 
impulse of the Holy Ghost, to worship God con- 
tinually, longing for his doctrine, and of our 
growth in him, belongs, eighthly, the feast of 
Penticost and festivals, which the persons of our 
people will determine on, for they have to be 



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directed according to the state of independence 
from earthly business, and according to the 
alterations in the only most perfect temple of 
God, which is the Universe. Beside these marked 
general festivals of our people, every person 
shall solemnise for ever and ever. The celebra- 
tion of holy-days is an act of our free love to 
the holy trinity ; therefore, they cannot be di- 
rectly commanded by the New Testament to 
keep them, as a work of love. 

5. This plan or system will lay into the heart . 
of the working-man on the achievement of this 
book's contents, and of its promoters, the con- 
viction, that he is going the shortest way to 
heaven, and that he will certainly will after this 
life never come amongst those thousands of great 
scholars, who are crying out: We fools did not 
attain the right way ! The more uncorrupted he 
remains by the erudition of this world, the 
easier he will understand the truth of this svs- 
tern ; and also any man, who does not know 
much, can still easily understand, that it is not 
possible for man to do more for the love of God, 
than to satisfy the first of all the command- 
ments, which is : Hear, Israel ! the Lord our 
God is one Lord. And thou shalt love the Lord 
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy 
soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy 
strength. And now what is more necessary to 
know, than this to commence and to accomplish 
the contents of this book ? 

6. This challenge, to exercise the first com- 



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mandment of God as perfectly as possible, will 
find a great many opponents, whose most disap- 
pointing assertion against it will be, that its 
achievement was against the second great com- 
mandment, against the love of the neighbor, 
which is like the first one ; but true lovers and 
believers can easily keep themselves aloof from 
that misleading delusion. The perfect accom- 
plishment of one of the two first commandments 
of God, cannot destroy the other one, but on the 
contrary, it requires its perfect fulfilment too, 
and now in this subsists that misleading delusion, 
because the worldly men accustom themselves to 
a very false kind of love of the neighbor, and 
require it so among each other ; whilst the true 
christian only has before his view the accom- 
plishment of Christianity, and to embrace the 
inheritance of the future blissfulness, and he 
wishes it likewise to his neighbor; this wish 
shows more pure love to him, but it is grave, 
solemn and admonishing; and so every true 
christian requires this same treatment, which is 
therefore very different from that, which the 
world calls neighborly love, and so will be the 
reaction of that in this book described and iso- 
lated congregation, certainly accomplishing the 
strongest and therefore the best love of the fel- 
low-man. 

7. Every faculty needs its measured distance 
to operate with its perfection, so the faculty of 
Christianity receives then its whole effect, when 
it takes place on its measured distance, for which 



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we pray with a pure spirit to the Lord our God, 
that it may be heard through Jesus Christ, and 
be done by his unworthy bride's appearance. 
Thus I conclude, repeating that we by the reali- 
zation of this plan only can exercise and show 
our best wish for perfection, and to love it, as 
our Lord loves it ; but we ourselves can never 
get rid of a certain state of sinfulness, and al- 
though our work may remain imperfect, yet he 
will not leave*us orphans, the bridegroom of our 
best wish and love will in mercy come to meet 
our love, and make it perfect before God. 

1 Cor. xiii. 9 : For we know in part, and we prophecy in 
part. 10. But when that which is perfect is come, then 
that which is in part shall cease. 

John xiv. 18: I will not leave you an orphan, I will come 
to you. 

Before I conclude this little work, it would 
perhaps add to its desirable reception by the 
public, to annex a short treatise on the Sabbath 
Day, and its true celebration, which I conse- 
quently here affix. 



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CHAPTER XXXIII. 



THE SABBATH DAY, 

AND ITS TRUE CELEBRATION. 

1. If Jesus Christ is one and the same with 
God, (John x. 30.,) then of course the command- 
ments of the Old Testament originate from 
Christ, as well as from God ; Christ will at least 
agree with them or approve of them. In order 
to prove this, I go back to the Bible, whether he 
himself directs us for the answer to this ques- 
tion, John v. 39. Thus we seek in the scrip- 
tures, and there we find in many places testimony 
.of the high authority of Christ. Besides the 
Prophets, who have strikingly predicted the 
particulars of his history, the Psalms contain 
many passages, which speak evidently of Christ, 
asibr instance : Ps. ii. 7, 8, xvi. 10, ex. 1, etc. 
Even Moses has pointed at him, Gen. iii. 15, 
xii. 3. From the testimony of him, and from the 
manner in which he describes himself, we must 
conclude, that he is also meant in Luke xxiv. 4, 
and Prov. viii. 22. But most clearly, we find 
the grandeur, which he enjoys with God, from 
the immediate testimony of those, whose eyes 
and ears God has opened, to see him, as he is ; 
for instance, John i. 1, 2, 3, Cor. v. 19, Col. i. 
16, 17, Heb. 1. 2, Rev. i. 11, iii. 14, etc. 



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Further did Christ himself by his works, and 
through his ascension, prove himself to be the 
Son of God, as God declared him to be on dif- 
ferent occasions, Matt. iii. 17, xvii. 5. This 
Son of God was free of all fraud ; his words 
were consequently pure truth, and of his person 
he said for instance, John iii. 32, viii. 26, 38, 
xvii. 5, viii. 58, x. 30. In like manner he called 
himself that life, which alone has power to raise 
the dead. Jesus Christ therefore is every thing 
for us, that we need. The institution of the 
Sabbath therefore has the same validity for 
Christians, as for Jews, for he did not repeal the 
Sabbath, Matt. v. 17; but be approved of it, 
Matt. xxiv. 20. But he taught us to celebrate 
the same differently from them, namely, internally 
free and spiritual devotion, which is ever active 
in works of love; which dare not be incarcerated 
by rules of men ; for he declared the Sabbath to 
be instituted for the sake of men; but not men 
for the sake of the Sabbath, Matt. ii. 27; and 
himself he called a Lord over the Sabbath. 

2. We find the institution of the Sabbath in 
Exodus, first a great and solemn preparation 
thereto in chapt. xix ; then the institution itself, 
chapt. xx. 8-11 ; there, then, it stands as the 
fourth commandment. We shall keep the Sab- 
bath day in memory, especially the seventh 
day. Cordial love for God and his creation as 
well as thankfulness towards the great Creator, 
should make it appear particularly holy and 
lovely that day, which He has instituted as 



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the day of bodily rest and mental celebration. 

Therefore is this one of His commandments, 
in which the Lord admonishes us to the dutiful 
gratitude towards Him, the Creator, to that love, 
which finds its rest only in the Creator of all 
things, for which special object, he set apart the 
seventh day. We see in Gala. xxxi. 14-17, chap, 
xxxv. 2, passages, which do not only verify, what 
we have said, and which not only point even at 
the seventh day, but which mention the seventh 
day moreover as an eternal sign of covenant be- 
tween us and our children with God. And if 
we even were not able to see any reason, why 
God has set apart just that seventh day for our 
weekly Sabbath, yet we are in duty bound to 
obey Him, for He says: Ez. lv. 8, for my 
thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your 
ways my ways. Or should we perhaps not be- 
long to that Israel, with whom God made this 
covenant for ever in the celebration of the 
seventh day ? Then we would neither be part 
of God nor Jesus Christ, but we would be deny- 
ers of the Christian faith, for that faith is based 
on the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, see 
Luke xx. 37, 38, and Gen. xii. 3, or Matt. viii. 
11, Rom. ix. 8-25, for if we belong to Christ, 
we also belong to Israel, to the people of the 
covenant and the promise. 

3. The change of the Sabbath day consequent- 
ly is deviation from strict faith and is as such 
pointed out in Heb. iii. 18, for just the Sabbath, 
a most solemn time of rest; the first sign of the 



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eternal covenant of God with us, is the first duty 
which strict faith prescribes ; therefore we read 
in Hos. ii. 20, I will even betroth thee unto me 
in faithfulness, etc. If the day for the Sabbath 
was to be transferred from the seventh to another 
day, then it would certainly have been the privi- 
lege of Christ, the Lord over the Sabbath, to 
speak also a word about it. But to complete my 
proofs, I here add the reasons, which the church 
pretends to have as a notion to change the Sab- 
bath day. They are to be found in Buechner's 
Biblical Concordance. In the New Testament 
the Apostles have ordered the Sunday, which 
is according to Acts i. 10, called the day of 
the Lord, to be celebrated ; for Acts xx. 7, it 
reads thus : 

64 On a Sabbath day, the first day of the week 
or Sunday," and from 1 Cor. xvi. 2, it is evident 
that they held their regular meetings on Sunday. 
Although this may not have been a particular 
command of Christ yet it took place under the 
influence of inspiration; first, because Christ 
rose from the dead on Sunday, Mark xvi. 9 ; 
secondly, because he has charged his Apostle on 
that day with the duty of preaching, John xx. 19, 
and thirdly, because the holy Spirit came upon 
the Apostles on this same day, Acts ii. 1." 

These are, however, inferences, so cunning, that 
the most skillful liar could not compose any bet- 
ter — so shameless and false, that it was only 
possible for the tyrants of the "Censure," to play 
such farces before the eyes of the world. Acts 



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i. 10, we read : I was in the Spirit on the Lord's 
day. But who can take this for an earthly day? 
And why not understand here Saturday instead 
of Sunday ? It is impossible, that herein any 
thing else be meant, but the eternal day of the 
Lord, the light of heaven, from which cometli 
revelation, as Christ himself describes as this 
day in Luke xvii. 21-24, and John viii. 56, he says 
clearly, what is to be understood by the day of 
the Lord. Moreover, where have the Apostles 
ordained the celebration of the Sunday ? No 
where ! Not even one Apostle ever made any 
alteration on God's and Christ's eternal sign of 
their covenant. To alter such an institution, 
even without any cause whatever, we cannot ex- 
pect from God, at least he should have men- 
tioned the fact in his word. In Acts xx. 7, there 
is not a word mentioned about Sunday or the 
first of the week, not an idea thereof, and 1 Cor. 
xvi. 2, nothing is said, that would justify taking 
Suixday for the Sabbath day. Why not as well 
take Friday for it ? And if ever the first Chris- 
tians should have held most of their meetings on 
Sunday, yet it would prove no more, but that 
they found the Sabbath day not quite as conve- 
nient, perhaps, on account of a general retreat 
on that day, or in order to consult each other as 
brethren on worldly affairs respecting their liveli- 
hood, etc., or from necessity of heathenish cus- 
toms. But the cause of change of the Sabbath 
day or rather of its suppression (for a sanctified 
day cannot be exchanged with another) unhe- 



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lief or infidelity on the part of the learned, and 
ignorance on the part of the public. As it res- 
pects the ascension of Christ, it certainly only 
proves, what we have said on this subject ; for 
during the Sabbath day he rested in the grave 
and celebrated with his father in heaven, and 
rose on the first day of the week, continuing his 
works of salvation. Just so was the first week 
day the most proper to continue his work of 
sending the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. 

The institution of regular preaching is in no 
connection with the change of the sabbath-clay 
whatever, as it cannot be confined to any partic- 
ular day, especially as the commandment for 
preaching was given on different occasions: as for 
instance, on the day of Christ's ascension, which 
w r as Saturday, and which we celebrate on the same 
day of the week. If all of us would heartily love 
Him, whom we should love ; and if those three 
kinds of celebration would be practised in the 
right way, then we would be mindful, in love and 
gratitude, of those great things, during the whole 
week, which secure to us our salvation ; but we 
are by no means allowed to* transfer the day of 
God's covenant to another. But as those vipers 
of unbelief cover all passages of the scriptures 
with poison, (or colored faith, 1 Tim. i. 5,) they 
may likewise pretend to have a right to draw such 
inferences from the respective scriptural passa- 
ges, which, in truth, only mean- that we as chris- 
tians are no more in need of the law, being dead 
in it, (Rom. vii. etc.) But is it not the condition 



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mider which we are free from the law, that we 
implant to our hearts and practice those ten com- 
mandments, and their fulfilment in Christ cor- 
rectly? 1 John ii. 3. Law exists for the purpose 
of keeping the wicked world externally in order: 
he then who embraces, with Christ, all just laws, 
obeying them at the same time, is consequently, 
as it were, dead for the external laws of the world, 
but only because he keeps them strictly, accord- 
ing to 1 John iii, 6: "Whosoever abideth in him, 
sinneth not; whosoever sinneth, hath not seen him 
neither. known him:" and for him the external 
law and its punishments do exist. In modern 
times, hypocrites always defend the celebration 
of the Sunday, whilst true believers keep silence. 
The reasons of those hypocrites, which they men- 
tion, are evidently far fetched and unfounded. 
Indifference was the source of many errors, and 
likewise of this one. Thus, they do not take the 
word of God accurately, and say that the object of 
God was only, that we celebrate one out of seven 
days, no matter which one. Day and time had 
nothing to do with the celebration; a voyage 
around the earth wtfuld prove this, etc. Truly, 
it may make an end to the quarrel, but should we 
first make a voyage around the earth before obey- 
ing God? Why then do those pious gentlemen 
consider it a crime, if one would pretend to 
know the design of God in advance? Finally ; 
how could God not have set apart a particular 
day or time, when he created and ordained room 
.and time for other things and objects in the uni- 



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verse, even performing a particular kind of work 
in the act of creation on every particular day, 
numbering the days and ordaining thef seventh 
thereof for future celebration by mankind, to rest 
from wordly affairs, and to give himself up for 
the object of his eternal existence? Three times 
after each other, that seventh day is mentioned 
by God in Gen. ii. 2-3, in this meaning and we 
shall, like God, celebrate spiritually and bodily 
on that day. 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 

1. Celebration or holy keeping is the activity 
of our love to God, an intimate union with God 
as far as our knowledge goes ; therefore the bet- 
ter we know him, the better we can adore him. 
The christian then, who learns to know God in 
Christ, can celebrate in the purest manner of all 
mankind. And the more he celebrates, the more 
intimate he becomes with God, and the more his 
whole life is changed into a continual celebration, 
Matt. ix. 15. How important it is, to celebrate, 
we see in Mark xiii. 33, Col. iv. 2, Matt. xxvi. 
41, etc. But the world is so generally caught 
in the jsnares of Phariseeism, that men separate 
action 1 from prayer and celebration too much, 
whilst action in the spirit of prayer is undoubt- 
edly the strongest or most fervent prayer : for 
works that do not come out of prayer, cannot 
please the Lord ; for the fact, that they are done 



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in God, makes them acceptable to him. To do 
good works in prayer, or to pray in good deeds, 
such is the way, that leads to the sweetest Sab- 
bath's rest. In this manner Christ celebrated 
the Sabbath, see Mark ii. 3, and other places. 
Thus he disapproved of all those bombastic cere- 
monies in celebrating the mere results of human 
inventions, as we can find clearly substantiated 
in the gospels. If we are to continue praying 
without ceasing to pray in spirit and in truth, 
then we must of course live and act in prayer, 
as life consists in spirit and in truth, as Christ 
sa} T s, John vi. 63 : ' The words which I speak, are 
spirit and life.' Good works consequently ought 
to be done on the Sabbath day ;' but to do no- 
thing at all, such is laziness and death, and is the 
reverse of true prayer. Works of love raise 
men to the sweetest rest and celebration. But 
tiring works on the Sabbath day, which do not 
glorify the name of God, are sins of death, caus- 
ing eternal death ; for they destroy the spirit of 
life and joy in men, which is poured especially 
and richly upon those that fear the Lord, on the 
holy Sabbath day. How can he that does not 
want to concern himself about God on the Sab- 
bath day, feel any interest in him at any other 
time ? Therefore has God repeatedly pronounced 
the punishment of death over such as break the 
Sabbath, without leaving them even a chance to 
seek grace — see Genesis xxxi. 14, 15, xxxv. 2, 
Num. xv. 35, etc. 

2. To him that celebrates the Sabbath day, 



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this celebration becomes a source of enlighten- 
ing; for in Christ, with whom he forms intimate 
acquaintance, there are hidden the treasures of 
wisdom and knowledge, (Col. ii. 3,) and should 
he in the meantime be interrupted by human 
ceremonies forced upon him, then the source of 
his true enlightening will be stopped. The same 
may be said of a whole state (Judges xx. 11 ;) 
and if in it the riding in any kind of vehicles, 
mails, and other circulations on the Sabbath, are 
interdicted, then the life of such a nation will 
be interfered with or stopped, namely, the source 
of life; just as well as if we would prohibit any 
person from walking on the Sabbath day, or if 
we would suppress other means for doing good, 
and for improving life. We cannot force a per- 
son to love us, and quite as improper it would be 
to cause the celebration by mere force ; for cele- 
bration is activity of love, as we have shown 
above ; but force creates hatred instead of love. 
The free love of christians has enlightened the 
world, and we find the world always most en- 
lightened where the Word of God has become 
most generally known, and it will certainly in 
future prove its power in this respect, and in 
such a degree, as tyranny and hypocrisy vanish. 
But the work must be done by the Word of God; 
this the free nations should use as the best means 
of rooting out those clerical inventions, which 
destroy spirit and life, (1 Thess. v. 19.) There 
are none other spiritual laws for the worldly 
government, but the one indicated in Matt. xxii, 



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37-39. Not even one man was ever able to fulfil 
these two commandments ; hoit could any body 
be capable of doing even more than Christ him- 
self, namely, to put on the world the burden of 
human Sabbath laws? Finally, it has become 
known, that Christ preached the gospel to the 
poor, (Matt. ii. 5;) that unpretending laymen 
often knew more than so-called literate men, 
(Matt. xi. 25;) consequently, the citadel of false 
priests is torn down, whose names were 66 ne plus 
ultra," and whose walls were the ready belief of 
their laymen. 



CHAPTER XXXV. 

Without the faith in Christ of a Peter, all 
knowledge of theologians is of no avail ; and if 
a practiser at law does not govern his passions 
and errors by the same faith, he cannot do jus- 
tice, as the example of Pilate evidently proves. 
Physicians cannot employ their science rightly, 
without this faith ; for without christian wisdom, 
love and consciousness, and without God, his 
knowledge is without skill and worth nothing. 
Even astronomers without that belief, dishonor 
God, call the Moon a burnt out lamp; Mars, 
cold and stormy, etc., because they trust not in 
God the ability of a creation, which they in their 
flesh and shortsightedness could not compre- 
hend. Unbelievers have already in this world 
to suffer a long while on the Sabbath day, if they 



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cannot stupify their conscience by sinful plea- 
sures of various kinds. But how painful must 
this long while be for them, which will not fail to 
take place, when eternity gives them no more 
chance for sensual allurements and such enter- 
tainments, as they were accustomed to, when in 
this world? This terrible tediousness is eternal 
death, and then the torture of living in the dark 
regions of the devils is eternal punishment for 
those who did not turn their hearts to God when 
yet living in the land of grace. 

It is w r ell known, that many persons visit pub- 
lic worship regularly, with a design to gain there- 
by a reward from God ; and if they have prayed, 
sung, preached and cried much, even three times 
per day, they imagine to have done enough for 
God. Their conscience is quiet, although they 
have not got rid of their sins; they consider them 
paid for ; but true quietude is perfectly unknown 
to them, and yet they pretend rest, in thinking 
that God had absolved them on account of the 
great honor they have brought him. This is the 
period when the evil spirit comes back to them, 
finding his former house swept and prepared, 
(Luke xi. 25-26.) From the spirit of celebration 
on the Sabbath day, one can draw the most cor- 
rect inferences with regard to qualities of such a 
nation ; is that nation learning more towards the 
second kind (in the congregation,) then abuses 
must necessarily come out of it, hypocricy and 
priestly tyranny; whilst a prevalent tendency 
towards the first and third kind are followed by 
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licentiousness, moral depravity and political ty- 
ranny. 

2. Only, if the officers of a state themselves 
celebrate the Sabbath day in the right manner, 
then the government can do something for its 
general holy-keeping ; likewise through educa- 
tion of the youth, through a rigid maintainance 
of justice, peace and quietude, but not through 
laws against personal liberty, as~ for instance, 
law against music, vehicles, etc. The church 
lias done but little as yet, for the celebration of 
the Sabbath ; but she could and should do much 
for this object, and should this end require every 
minister to swear, that he would preach nothing 
but*" Christ Jesus, the Redeemer, according to the 
Bible, and likewise every member of every con- 
gregation, to swear that he would believe and 
have preached the same, without any alteration 
whatever, (Hebr. *vii. 16.) Through such a pu- 
rification of the Church at large, they would 
gain peace, strength, and genuine preaching, in 
which articles the church in her celebration, 
showed the greatest defects. Then those, who 
have no fear of the Lord, will have to separate 
themselves from the church, and this spiritual 
separation will bring forth the strongest conver- 
Bions ; for the more deeply they see themselves 
sunk, the greater exertions they will make for 
their salvation. 

Then we dare not expect ministers to be so 
modest as to consider themselves no more than 
others, a weakness on account of. which the best 



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of men often are their antagonists. What else 
can the word "laymen" be, but Balac's griev- 
ance ? Besides, none of them is the Lord, nor 
the Pastor, nor Master, as Christ says, Matt. ii. 
3-10. Christ calls himself only the good shepherd 
and who is like him? When he sent out liis 
Apostles, he sent them as sheep amongst the 
wolves, (Matt. x. 7-16,) and yet he sent thern, 
to preach the kingdom of God. It is true, he 
said to Peter: "Feed my sheep!" (John xxi. 
16,) but on the same occasion (v. 22) he declared, 
that he gave this command only to Peter, namely, 
as he himself explains it (chap. xvi. 18) to Peter, 
as the "rock of Faith/' True christians learn 
the. word of God by means of the Holy Spirit; 
common theologians, however, by means of sci- 
ences, and have not faith in the same degree, m 
they have knowledge, and are tyrannical pedants, 
(1 Cor. viii. 1,) they have no wells of living- 
water, John vii. 38, and their knowledge is ren- 
dered only to their own ruin and that of others, 
1 Cor. i. 18, 19, Chro. ii. 4, etc. 

3. The formation of truely religious congre- 
gations, as above stated is necessary, if true. 
Christianity is to be practiced on this globe. 
They of course must be based on that true faith, 
which is active in love. And thus the church 
would perfectly harmonize with the new Jerusa- 
lem, described in this little book, and vice versa. 
It would add at the same time a great deal to 
complete this desirable work, if the ministers of 
Christ would make it their main object in their 



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sermons to prove their faith ; then they would 
create an active love in their congregations, 
without which they can neither sustain, nor pu- 
rify themselves. Therefore did Christ ask Peter 
repeatedly: "Do you love me ?" "Then feed 
my lambs !" Only pure love towards Christ lets 
us find the best food in him. For this reason 
the seven first congregations were not judged by 
Christ according to their spiritual enlightening, 
but according to their degree of love. Rev. ii. 
4-19 ; Chro. iii. 2-9-16. For God so loved the 
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, John 
iii. 16. And this son of God opened his arms 
on the cross, in consequence of his love towards 
mankind, and showed his loving heart through 
his opened side ; "therefore let us love him, that 
has loved us first." 

At the conclusion of this book, I repeat to all 
my present and future friends, and to all those 
who love purity of the heart, peace and concord 
of men, that there are ways thereto, easily to be 
carried out, and these ways consist in the fact, 
that all those, who are of one and the same faith, 
form likewise an external society, not however 
holding in common all their property, which can 
only take place in the constitution of the holy 
city, and even there this principle can be carried 
out only to some extent, if it shall not confine 
the sphere of action of individuals. I mean there- 
fore merely such, as incline to a strong christian 
faith ; they should avoid no sacrifice, in order 
to have together and convenient, although not 



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strictty in common, also their earthly goods, as 
they live in community of the Spirit. The best 
arrangement for the foundation of such a settle- 
ment and congregation would prescribe to lay 
out large lots for the city. Every house ought 
to be separated from the adjoining by a yard 
and garden, and yet all together should form a 
regular city, and shouldhave one meeting house 
and one or two ministers. Every member of the 
congregation would have to be strictly faithful in 
the Holy Bible and in the Three-one God, and 
to keep the principles of New Jerusalem, already 
to some extent. Besides this, it would be neces- 
sary, as a mark of difference from other settle- 
ments, that all those, who would again leave the 
society could not claim any right to real estate 
property of the society, or, in other words, 
could not sell his part to any person else, but he 
could reclaim from the society, the amount of 
money he put in. When has the christian in the 
wild and noisy world days of peace for the de- 
velopment of his spirit and company with God? 
In times of peace non-christians ruin him by 
law-suits and the like more ; in times of war the 
royal idolator plays the traitor on the republican 
children of the Lord ; in times of need and pes- 
tilence all non-christians keep aloof from him, 
and his like or mate he cannot find. Therefore 
the life in such a society would already be suffi- 
cient to make men considerably happier than 
they can at present be in the w T orld under any 
other circumstances. 



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Thus I take farewell from my friendly readers, 
assuring them, that my object in writing this 
book, was a pure one, leaving the result to him, 
who understands best, to unite proper time and 
proper means to reach his holy objects ! 

Dr. Julius Schwarz. 



CORRECTIONS. 



Page 26 — Line 12: For Arnet, read Arndt. 

M 102 " 12: For hall, read halls. 

" 112 " 13: Head, Pass along through. 

" 112 " 16: For from, read form. 

" 114 " 4: For row, read rows. 

<< 119 " 13 : Read, wall from the height. 

" 134 " 10: Read, Naphtali-gate. 

" 147 " 8: Read, accomplish. 

" 151 " 25: Read, that the persons separately, 
or male with male, and female with female, prececded in 
4 'tempo." Proofs : 2 Sam. vi. 14 and 16 ; Ex. xv. 20; Judges 
xi. 34, xxi. 21; 1 Sam. xviii* 6; Ps. xxx. 12, cxlix. 3, cl. 
4 ; Jer. xxxi. 4; Eccles. iii. 4; Matt. xi. 17; Luke xv. 25. 
Page 153 — Line 29: For P...ined, read P...ine. 

« 161 " 12: Read, where we read "In the Test. 

" 162 " 32: Read, is unbelief. 

'« 168 17: Read, ascension, which we cele- 



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